I thought this was a joke but it seems like it's actually legit. WoW, which has a subscription and paid expansions, just added a $90 item to their store. This is Korean MMO levels of absurdity. What do you think of this?

Seems like hundreds of people bought it immediately

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[–] Skates@feddit.nl 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It hurts to do this, because you've obviously thought out your comment and you obviously like the game and want to believe the devs are doing their best. But I think your entire premise is wrong

To combat Chinese gold farmers, Blizzard started selling gold in a bit of a roundabout way

Why do you think this? Why do you grant a greedy game dev the benefit of the doubt? They're cashing in on Chinese gold farmers in all possible ways, man:

By allowing their accounts to exist instead of banning and moving on
By controlling the value of gold with a cash shop, ensuring economy is in their favor
The cash shop also brings them monetary value.

They are triple dipping, and you choose to believe they are doing it because they're a good game dev.

A good game dev would ban accounts guilty of real money trading. A good game dev would fix the in-game economy with in-game methods. A good game dev wouldn't have micro transactions in a subscription game. You want to believe Blizzard is doing this because of those evil Chinese farmers - I'm here to tell you they're profiting from this and don't have the morals to make it right.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Did you maybe consider that they did....both? Gold in the cash shop comes with a very minor downside to players and a big upside.

And where did I imply that I thought they did this for the players?