Comments on: Shared Topic: If You Could Buy a Month of WoW With Gold? http://www.twistednether.net/2009/07/25/shared-topic-if-you-could-buy-a-month-of-wow-with-gold/ A World of Warcraft Podcast Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:13:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: logtar http://www.twistednether.net/2009/07/25/shared-topic-if-you-could-buy-a-month-of-wow-with-gold/comment-page-1/#comment-6105 logtar Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:27:59 +0000 http://www.twistednether.net/2009/07/25/shared-topic-if-you-could-buy-a-month-of-wow-with-gold/#comment-6105 Doesn't this kind of happen in a very roundabout kind of way? Doesn’t this kind of happen in a very roundabout kind of way?

]]> By: carychan http://www.twistednether.net/2009/07/25/shared-topic-if-you-could-buy-a-month-of-wow-with-gold/comment-page-1/#comment-6068 carychan Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:15:56 +0000 http://www.twistednether.net/2009/07/25/shared-topic-if-you-could-buy-a-month-of-wow-with-gold/#comment-6068 Allowing players to straight up buy a month of play time with 10k gold (or any amount) will, simply speaking, never happen. It creates a gold sink but has a direct negative affect on Blizzard's income, and they have many better ways to create gold sinks that don't cost them real money. What could possibly happen is something similar to what is already being done in EVE Online. In short, the EVE system works something like this. Player A buys a game time code that is good for 60 days of played time from CCP for real money. Player A may then trade this code (via secure in-game methods) to Player B, for in-game currency. Then Player B redeems the code, gets the 60 days of play time. Net effect is that essentially Player A paid for his time and B's time. The net income for the company is still exactly the same, but it allows people with disposable real income and people with disposable in-game income to balance leverage their respective assets in a mutually beneficial arrangement. Everyone wins. Allowing players to straight up buy a month of play time with 10k gold (or any amount) will, simply speaking, never happen. It creates a gold sink but has a direct negative affect on Blizzard’s income, and they have many better ways to create gold sinks that don’t cost them real money.

What could possibly happen is something similar to what is already being done in EVE Online. In short, the EVE system works something like this. Player A buys a game time code that is good for 60 days of played time from CCP for real money. Player A may then trade this code (via secure in-game methods) to Player B, for in-game currency. Then Player B redeems the code, gets the 60 days of play time.

Net effect is that essentially Player A paid for his time and B’s time. The net income for the company is still exactly the same, but it allows people with disposable real income and people with disposable in-game income to balance leverage their respective assets in a mutually beneficial arrangement. Everyone wins.

]]> By: Context is Everything at 2fps http://www.twistednether.net/2009/07/25/shared-topic-if-you-could-buy-a-month-of-wow-with-gold/comment-page-1/#comment-6012 Context is Everything at 2fps Sat, 25 Jul 2009 17:17:26 +0000 http://www.twistednether.net/2009/07/25/shared-topic-if-you-could-buy-a-month-of-wow-with-gold/#comment-6012 [...] most recent Twisted Nether shared topic asks what would happen if Blizzard allowed you to buy game time with in-game currency. One of the [...] [...] most recent Twisted Nether shared topic asks what would happen if Blizzard allowed you to buy game time with in-game currency. One of the [...]

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