Quote Originally Posted by Melichoir View Post
Im not clear on how gold selling from Blizz operates and how that differes from the gold seller?

From what Ive understood, You buy a token for a sub (30 days I guess), and you can sell that token for Gold on the MB. So it's not adding gold to the economy but just redistributing existing gold supposedly.

But gold Farmers/sellers arent generating gold out of thin air. They get it by mechanics the game provides (farming mats, doing quests, selling items, etc). The primary difference is their actions are just creating more available gold in the economy at a faster rate than normal, which depresses the value of gold independently because the game 'prints' gold every time you sell an item to an NPC. But from a pure exchange PoV, blizz is taking IRL money to faciliate a gold transfer between players, where a gold seller is doing the same thing, except they used the in game systems to get that money.

Now gold sellers use botting, which is the obvious issue, but if the big morale for the longest time was "Do not use money to get gold cause it messes up the game" and blizzard starts acting as a middle man to facilitate that which was called immoral, then doesnt that make it all hypocritical?
It's weird but this is the first time I've seen or thought about excess gold messing up the game being the reason not to buy it O.o always thought the problem was third parties making money off a Blizzard product and giving people an advantage they got illegitimately... especially when a lot of those gold farmers were stealing and selling stolen gold and stolen accounts. Blizz selling gold themselves just seemed like a smart thing to do tbh.