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Wow Gold Hawkers

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Have disappeared...why? did blizz effectively find a way to stop the spam..I dont think so...I think its more likely its the ease of which you can make gold now...but then I think...they still wouldnt stop hawking to fish for any customers they could grab....why do you wow guys think they are gone in mop
 
Most likely the majority of gold that was going to be sold to them has been, and revenue hs dropped
 
Someone is always hawking Gold on Wow.
 
I miss WoW. I made a fortune selling fishing poles, lol. Made a lot of great friends, too. Unfortunately, my guilds ended up being more demanding of my time than my husband, so I eventually had to give it up to remain sane. Still... good times.
 
lpast said:
Have disappeared...why? did blizz effectively find a way to stop the spam..I dont think so...I think its more likely its the ease of which you can make gold now...but then I think...they still wouldnt stop hawking to fish for any customers they could grab....why do you wow guys think they are gone in mop
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if the new expansion isanything like old expansions,gold finding has become much easier,and gold farming in the same ways they did in old expansions would be slower than players simply playing the game.

those gold hawkers are simply searching for new efficient ways to produce enough gold to sell,because if obtaining gold is easier,they have to sell much higher quantities cheaper than anyone could get at a liesurely pace.
 
beerftw said:
if the new expansion isanything like old expansions,gold finding has become much easier,and gold farming in the same ways they did in old expansions would be slower than players simply playing the game.

those gold hawkers are simply searching for new efficient ways to produce enough gold to sell,because if obtaining gold is easier,they have to sell much higher quantities cheaper than anyone could get at a liesurely pace.
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Simply playing the game isn't the method to make gold. It's playing AH. If you do it right you get rich pretty fast. I had like 3k gold on my toon when MoP dropped, now I am in 300,000g range. Just farming mats and crafting crap.
 
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Simply playing the game isn't the method to make gold. It's playing AH. If you do it right you get rich pretty fast. I had like 3k gold on my toon when MoP dropped, now I am in 300,000g range. Just farming mats and crafting crap.
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but if you make that much in the ah,it means players have more gold from quests dungeons etc.so if your gold increased that much,it means gold suppliers cant compete unless they find a much more efficient method.

in wotlk it was selling saronite,one stack was 5 gold,on stack of ingots which took 2 stacks of ore sold for 25 gold.obviously gold sites could run nonstop bots tofarm it at a rate no normal player could achieve without using a bot.but lets say quests gave much much more gold in the new expansion,it would allow more into the ah,if such gold was easily available,gold sites cant compete.plus such large increases in gold could easily have increased supply somuch that there would be no profit from hawking it.
 
beerftw said:
but if you make that much in the ah,it means players have more gold from quests dungeons etc.so if your gold increased that much,it means gold suppliers cant compete unless they find a much more efficient method.

in wotlk it was selling saronite,one stack was 5 gold,on stack of ingots which took 2 stacks of ore sold for 25 gold.obviously gold sites could run nonstop bots tofarm it at a rate no normal player could achieve without using a bot.but lets say quests gave much much more gold in the new expansion,it would allow more into the ah,if such gold was easily available,gold sites cant compete.plus such large increases in gold could easily have increased supply somuch that there would be no profit from hawking it.
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People could have bought gold at the end of Cata before MoP dropped. But on avg getting 20 gold per quest and 1g per mob kill isn't that much. I'll track tomorrow what I got in gold from doing dailies (all the factions) tomorrow. But I am sure it's about 1k for doing all of them.
 
So I did all dailies (with mob drops) and made 1,200 gold. So out of a week you'd get 8,400 before repairs, reforges and mats. Now off to raid MSV.
 
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I quit just before MoP came out, but I think they left because there were no good money "sinks". Once you got so much money, what good did it do except to brag about having so much money? My ex girlfriend told me that MoP introduced some sort of "black market" for rare mounts, pets, whatever. That may help.

However, before then, I had nothing to spend gold on that actually eliminated it from the game. I had one potential - my main when I came back to the game was a human rogue. I could've dropped 10,000 gold to an NPC in Stormwind to proceed for my legendary daggers, but I hated raiding, and I did just fine as a fully PvP geared 400+ ilvl rogue with cata dags.
 
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