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Comment on WoW Tokens now require you to buy a real-money subscription first

As someone who uses gold to buy WoW tokens for both game time and shop credit to make other Blizzard purchases, I have a hard time getting upset over this. I’ve been playing the game without spending money for years, and tokens are also how I buy both WoW expansions and other Blizzard games. Asking me to pay money for a month of sub time every few years seems reasonable, especially if this change makes it even the slightest bit annoying/harder for bot accounts.

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PieMePlenty@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Damn, I never knew you could do that in wow. Played for a bit 15 years ago and liked the game but was not in a position to pay the monthly fee.

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- Ashtear@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Some players doing this are still coasting on a big windfall the game provided around 2015-2016. Especially if they invested that gold.
  
  Casual players can still pay for their monthly by playing the game, but they have to limit their spending and know what they are doing.
  
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- alianne@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The WoW token wasn’t introduced until WoD, so if you played that long ago it wouldn’t have been an option. If you’re ever looking to jump in again though, it’s definitely a useful system if you like to make gold in game.
  
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tryptaminev@feddit.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
But somebody else has spent the real money to buy a token. The only justification for the concept is, that it allows people with less time and more money to balance things with people with more time and less money, in an effort to curb the expansive illicit gold trading that happens otherwise (and still does).

Without the motivation of the people with less money and more time, to afford playing for free, the whole concept is weakened and the token sellers are more inclined to go back to illicit gold farmers.

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Ashtear@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
As long as it’s a one-time thing I can’t get too annoyed by it.

I just hope it doesn’t turn into a frequent thing, and it’s hard not to be skeptical when the token/battle.net credit system has only become more restricted over the years.

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- alianne@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  True, if it turned into a situation where you had to sub with money for a month every time you wanted to redeem a token or something, that would definitely lessen the value for me. I’d still say it was worth it because I could use the tokens for expansions and other games, but not everyone may have the same opinion.
  
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criticalthreshold@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Yep. I fully paid for Diablo4 w/ the early access with wow tokens.

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