WoW Gold Website Exposes How Bad The Industry is...

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MetaGoblin

MetaGoblin

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@MetaGoblin
@MetaGoblin Жыл бұрын
Hey guys just an update on my latest video of my interview with a gold selling website. The individual I interviewed made some mistakes and typos on the questionnaire I sent him and they would like me to clarify some things to you. 1. They have tried methods of farming through bots but not for the World of Warcraft franchise (other games). 2. They claim to not use gold farmed from bots "We are very reverent in making sure that this is exactly the case." 3. They don't makes "tens of millions" of dollars a month but do make "millions" per month. 4. They do not have permanent office space but have the ability to rent office space from time time. I can't claim responsibility for the misinformation here as I only reported on the information that was given to me. The person I interviewed made the mistakes. I trust my audience to have the intelligence to take all the information here and in the video with a pinch of salt as we are going off the word of the company, without any concrete evidence.
@Cpk20001
@Cpk20001 Жыл бұрын
I believe blizzard could stop this, but something shady is happening.
@XxSkye1xX
@XxSkye1xX Жыл бұрын
they cant stop this lol, not enough employees xD
@PiratDunkelbart
@PiratDunkelbart Жыл бұрын
They could if they just ban the players buying services/gold. But yeah... they gave them their own channel to provide it. :D
@alexrompen805
@alexrompen805 Жыл бұрын
I mean yes, they COULD... but the cost at this point would be in the hundreds of millions. They lost the battle between 2009 and 2012 when they didnt act fast or invest enough resources into combatting botting and gold selling.
@Nitidus
@Nitidus Жыл бұрын
​@@alexrompen805You've got no idea what you're talking about.
@alexrompen805
@alexrompen805 Жыл бұрын
@@Nitidus lol, of course not. It's not like I was actively participating in gold farming and botting and selling to those companies from TBC to MoP or something...oh wait..I was...
@mcfarvo
@mcfarvo Жыл бұрын
Imagine you have a tapeworm that is larger than your GI tract, so it extends out of both ends like a tail and a tongue, a parasite that is now so large that the host organism cannot hide it anymore
@Finality
@Finality Жыл бұрын
The botting issue is simple if you just think about it from a business perspective. Finding a solution would require money for staff to develop and impliment/enforce a solution. If the cost benefit of this costs them more money than they would make, Blizzard has no reason to put any serious effort into it. Other than the ban waves every few months to garner some goodwill and make it look like they care. Which they clearly don't.
@hugus800
@hugus800 Жыл бұрын
They probably could get an intern do that over the summer.
@suminshizzles6951
@suminshizzles6951 7 ай бұрын
They annouce a ban wave every three months so bots have enough time to get leveled, make their in real life money before they get banned. Blizzard is complicit in the illegal rel life money transactions since they themselves make money off of this. Ban waves are so gullible people are fed their busllshit to swallow.
@omnomaly7458
@omnomaly7458 Жыл бұрын
NGL this company sounds better to work for than most companies in the US
@markiemark2498
@markiemark2498 Жыл бұрын
!00% blizzard has their hands in this. no way they let it go this far if they aren't making some of that money
@andybarry5315
@andybarry5315 Жыл бұрын
100%
@roryhannagan5673
@roryhannagan5673 Жыл бұрын
Every bot account has to buy a sub at around 70$ upfront plus ongoing monthly. Of course they’re making a killing
@justin-yv2xp
@justin-yv2xp Жыл бұрын
They may have their hand in it, or also they maybe under mafia style threats.. If u start taking blocking that kind of money... its a legit concern for game devs and their families.
@Lizard1582
@Lizard1582 Жыл бұрын
​@@justin-yv2xp Id like to hear any sort of evidence of this, even anecdotal.
@Lizard1582
@Lizard1582 Жыл бұрын
They get money from the wow token selling which only sells if you actually need gold which is done by inflating its value with botting to make conventional manual methods inneffecient. Their playerbase is already paying $180 yearly to play the game, they're already primed to spend more money kn the game so they ultimately dont care about gold selling from a game design standpoint. It's not rocket science.
@JayJay-vl9wq
@JayJay-vl9wq Жыл бұрын
Your honesty about your lack of motivation for subtitles and desire for beer is hilarious ;p Nice vid
@boristheamerican2938
@boristheamerican2938 Жыл бұрын
170 staff? Thats more than Blizzard has!
@De_Nome
@De_Nome Жыл бұрын
Made me laugh :D
@suminshizzles6951
@suminshizzles6951 7 ай бұрын
Considering that they use AI now to make armor you right i think. A lot of drawing also gets outsoruced to places like china.
@GuideMMO
@GuideMMO Жыл бұрын
1:42 Wait that's me flying right there farming my 1k lotus!
@ndothand
@ndothand Жыл бұрын
Seems like the subscriber only content in GDrives was deleted?
@Adoarer
@Adoarer Жыл бұрын
Nameplate from the DK got censored but you still could read his full name in the target of target frame KEKW
@TarregorsSrb2Channel
@TarregorsSrb2Channel Жыл бұрын
it doesn't matter; blizzard won't do anything about it anyway
@Adrenaliinz
@Adrenaliinz 5 ай бұрын
HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE ?! Being a criminal, working in a company, that at least by the law is considered legit, doing all your nasty work, WITHOUT HIDING, WITHOUT CARE...?! Like wtf ?!
@tunasub8097
@tunasub8097 Жыл бұрын
bots are the #1 reason I cancelled my sub. after months of playing and still seeing the same bots in the same place after hundreds of reports from myself, I couldn't stand it anymore. I went to pservers for this reason alone and haven't looked back since.
@lordanbuble5167
@lordanbuble5167 9 ай бұрын
imagine leaving game u love bcs of bots😂
@WhiteMisteryWeed
@WhiteMisteryWeed 7 ай бұрын
​@@lordanbuble5167yeah? That's a legitimate reason to leave. Stupid comment lmao.
@patriklachowitzer4666
@patriklachowitzer4666 Жыл бұрын
So where so i apply?
@peexee752
@peexee752 Жыл бұрын
Can they comment on how GDKP promote RMT?
@MetaGoblin
@MetaGoblin Жыл бұрын
We will do a whole episode on the gdkp epidemic soon.
@peexee752
@peexee752 Жыл бұрын
@@MetaGoblin Awesome, thanks man!
@AnguraAnjelus
@AnguraAnjelus Жыл бұрын
So a little insight, at least from my perspective. Pre-WoW, I played Last Chaos on the Malay servers. Me and three others, two other US Residents, and a Sweed who ran with me ran an interesting system. For those that know Last Chaos know how p2w it was, especially on the Us servers. As one of the top players of the time before Cubetech went under, the four of us were well known at the time to have 'unstoppable builds'. Open PK system everywhere outside of towns. And how we made a name for ourselves was we proved it by attacking people poaching and scaring off newer players. We dealt with it when we first started, and while the big guilds were warring with another and attacking low levels and demanding their loyalties. We sat down and we crunched numbers, looked for the age old 'hidden integers' of the game. This was when BiS was just a bonus and stats and skill ruled all. Not to say BiS didn't help us, but our namesake was for literal builds. We didn't sell for RM, but, what we did was sold watered down versions of our builds. Ones that came close to ours for in game money. Why? To buy gear for ourselves and our guild, or near the end of it, guilds. We had one of the largest alliances before alliance systems came to play. Now, with that gold, we bought BiS gear, or mats to make our own gear. Them using bots, might be for a similar reason. 170+ people working for them? Some incentive might be in fact helping them gear some of the newer recruits. buying BiS for those that run for the gold, and they may even have a set of gear they run specifically for it.
@triqvert9406
@triqvert9406 Жыл бұрын
after all, the problem is not in the bots or gold sellers, the problem is in the players who fund these business models by paying for the gold, that's it.
@Vanderx
@Vanderx Жыл бұрын
glad you liked my boosting video
@temetnosce2099
@temetnosce2099 Жыл бұрын
Blizz has no interest in getting rid of bots. They added the token to piggyback on gold buying and get in on the action.
@rundown132
@rundown132 Жыл бұрын
Exactly, they take a cut from subs so lol
@big123lak
@big123lak Жыл бұрын
And all the money goes right back into a blizzard product literally all profit
@big123lak
@big123lak Жыл бұрын
Literally double sale
@ryananderson586
@ryananderson586 Жыл бұрын
Why would blizzard spend more money on anything like this right now. That would be seen as a negative asset in their acquisition and it makes more sense from a business perspective to let Microsoft address this issue when it is under their umbrella.
@belavet
@belavet Жыл бұрын
IDK if I should be saying this but this video series has had me considering just selling my own gold lol. I produce in excess of 1MwH of solar each year that I get nothing for in return (but credits), may as well burn it...
@big123lak
@big123lak Жыл бұрын
????
@messybuttons7525
@messybuttons7525 Жыл бұрын
These videos are actually going to make things worse, not better. Many people are being educated on how lucrative botting and selling are and they’ll want their piece of the pie
@vyxx6222
@vyxx6222 Жыл бұрын
Blizzard has a boxprice, a subscription, and multiple in-game currencies purchasable with money, but they can't afford to pay gm's. I've already quit because the blantant RMT and over monetization. There is no more getting worse, it's already crossed the line of just becoming a p2w mobile game they duped pc gamers into playing with name recognition.
@suminshizzles6951
@suminshizzles6951 7 ай бұрын
@@vyxx6222 This is one of the reasons i quit as well. I quit the first time at the end of 8.2. Nazjatar was over run by flocks of druids stealing herbs on my server 24/7/365. In 1.5 hours of flying in that zone at 3am EU time i could not get a single herb. That was the day i quit. The whales themsleves, the ones with money that spend it ingame, also will leave the game if there are no peop-le to play with
@archvaldor
@archvaldor Жыл бұрын
What do they need a moose for?
@5594-d6c
@5594-d6c Жыл бұрын
I didn't understand the "closed circle" explanation about the wow token not dropping the gold sellers' profit. Can someone please elaborate? It sounds interesting and I'd like to understand what exactly is going on.
@bowman1248
@bowman1248 Жыл бұрын
I guess if they didn't exist the total disposable gold in the economy would be substantially less and thus the wow token price would be less. That's the closed loop the tokens price is based on what the players within the server are able to create and spend. Their big injection of gold through illicit sales isn't affected by the wow token, it effects what the wow token is worth. The token doesn't harm their business at all.
@RandomSorcESO
@RandomSorcESO Жыл бұрын
Came back to classic after a 3 year break, leveled to 60 and 3 days later I want to quit, they have ruined the game hugely. I did 3 loops in 2 different zones and only managed to mine 14 mithril ore... game is fucked
@MrBudbubba
@MrBudbubba Жыл бұрын
Tinfoil hat thinking here. If they are making that much money and Blizzard isn't really doing anything about it, maybe it's because Bobby is getting a cut of it in order to not do anything about it! 🤔
@nutroll
@nutroll Жыл бұрын
game devs could coordinate this easily, and then crack down on any independent upstarts to the current blackmaket leaders and market that as them taking the problem seriously while in reality they are just protecting their illicit profit margins. Essentially the same thing the US gov does with illegal drugs.
@candlestyx8517
@candlestyx8517 8 ай бұрын
This definitely is something bobby boy would do.
@NofirstnameNolastname
@NofirstnameNolastname Жыл бұрын
I don't think Blizzard has their hands in this themselves contrary to what many believe. I feel like if this has been the case then they would have been exposed ages ago by employees who love the game.
@kaicoldfell5455
@kaicoldfell5455 Жыл бұрын
ah yes, break the NDA and ruin my entire life for **checks notes** a video game, that right?
@TRG29338
@TRG29338 Жыл бұрын
It would only take a couple suits.
@NofirstnameNolastname
@NofirstnameNolastname Жыл бұрын
@@kaicoldfell5455 Ever heard of leaking documents or information? Also how is your entire life ruined by this?
@tristanchef1
@tristanchef1 Жыл бұрын
Overgeared is a shell company for Bobby.
@Disclaimer-Alert
@Disclaimer-Alert Жыл бұрын
People hate diablo immoral because its p2w but blizzard is only trying to get their share on the RMT world by selling directly the product.
@selwrynn6702
@selwrynn6702 Жыл бұрын
Fuck I'm in the wrong line of work.
@ChaseGames
@ChaseGames 10 ай бұрын
I'm a long timed removed from playing WoW, just came back. That said, how is gold selling hurting wow? Gold has value in wow, but I remember it being pretty limited. In raiding, BoE gear was always very limited and almost never BiS. The only benefit I've seen from videos here on YT comes from GDP raids, where the other players at least still get gold if a gold buying "whale" snipes the desired gear from a player.
@Nitronlol
@Nitronlol Жыл бұрын
the problem are not the gold sellers but the people who buy it
@boristheamerican2938
@boristheamerican2938 Жыл бұрын
Yep but then the argument can be made that the game itself would fall apart if the people who bought gold went away. I knew a lot of people who would log in for raid night, buy gold and use it for consumables for the raid and then log off until the next raid. If they had to farm they wouldnt play.
@TRG29338
@TRG29338 Жыл бұрын
@@boristheamerican2938 they're barely playing as it is.
@Eren-cy6ln
@Eren-cy6ln Жыл бұрын
So what? If they don't have time to play the game maybe they shouldn't anyway?@@boristheamerican2938
@adolfyeager6939
@adolfyeager6939 Жыл бұрын
i love buying gold, allows me to enjoy the full extent of games with my time restraints to play these games
@GeorgMaUlWurf
@GeorgMaUlWurf Жыл бұрын
6:22 together with what I wrote: just dont do it the way you do it then. I find the voice hard to listen to and slow, I rather have the full text to read than wait til it is written out in 1 word per second
@michaeldariopellittieri3050
@michaeldariopellittieri3050 2 ай бұрын
The moment blizzard merged with activision I stopped caring myself. If u asked me if I would buy gold back during the days of GMs having fun with players, when the game was wholesome and an actual community ide say never. But now lol, I probably would if I still played.
@synthsupreme
@synthsupreme Жыл бұрын
Boosting is way more common than people think. If they banned everybody who ever bought a boost for real life money, 99% of the existing playerbase would be banned and only 10 people would be left playing.
@messybuttons7525
@messybuttons7525 Жыл бұрын
You’re projecting
@Nightstalker314
@Nightstalker314 Жыл бұрын
20% might be gone.
@TRG29338
@TRG29338 Жыл бұрын
Most ppl just play the game. Because it's a game.
@Eren-cy6ln
@Eren-cy6ln Жыл бұрын
Would be good riddence.
@candlestyx8517
@candlestyx8517 8 ай бұрын
No, there are a large portion of players who level up the organic way and know leveling is part of the experience and necessary to learn your class or build. People who buy these RMT services are selfish and lazy and don't care about the impact it has on the games they play, they also tend to be bad at the class they boosted. And honestly, this thing has become the meta because of how overwhelmingly common GDKPs have gotten which are usually fueled by RMT services. Also, the players spamming boosting services 24/7 and using alts to circumvent global ignore lists are almost certainly turning around and selling a lot of that gold they make to said RMT services.
@graemepatterson
@graemepatterson Жыл бұрын
If the money blizzard lose from stopping these players using RMTs is less than their sub, they don't care. very simple. If they banned the boosters, they also lose all of those subs as well
@burakkar1068
@burakkar1068 Жыл бұрын
RMT is too big right now because of easy credit cart payment... In wotlk gdkp is huuuuge... if you are in casual guild just forget good parses.
@kishisafish
@kishisafish Жыл бұрын
appreciate u showing me the website to buy gold, now i can get a hyacinth macaw. thanks
@MetaGoblin
@MetaGoblin Жыл бұрын
Behave.
@kishisafish
@kishisafish Жыл бұрын
@@MetaGoblin they didnt accept my card... no bird for me :(
@weirdodude1173
@weirdodude1173 Жыл бұрын
It's insanity. Thumbs up for the great videos!
@YutaBLv
@YutaBLv Жыл бұрын
I mean why is anyone shocked. Riot does the same with account selling.
@suminshizzles6951
@suminshizzles6951 7 ай бұрын
They can stop RTM transactins and botting. They just choose not to since it makes them money to the detriment of the player, whom they give ZERO shits about.
@coolow100x
@coolow100x Жыл бұрын
Amazing series sir
@roonlol
@roonlol Жыл бұрын
Bots and gold selling never really bothered me that much back in the day the biggest thing that bothers me now is that it’s affected the auction house blowing everything way out of proportion
@alecaboss1073
@alecaboss1073 Жыл бұрын
I met AH bot that bypassed ~100 actions per 5 minute rule, he was not only undercutting me and everyone else 24/7 at speed of light but also removing auction while me being hard blocked by 5 minute rule. Its not just botting we are dealing with, they're hackers and exploit every bug/loophole that could be found, and ofc they find it first because of monetary incentive.
@roonlol
@roonlol Жыл бұрын
@@alecaboss1073 I agree I’m not for the bots just saying now bots have inflated the economy so much like he said potion of swiftness going for 10g a pop that’s insane
@suminshizzles6951
@suminshizzles6951 7 ай бұрын
Gathering bots are back now in retail. I just spent the law month checkign out retail and in DF, even with the dynamic flying that is dragonflight, the bots are back. So if you are a solo gatherer just getting herbs for yourself, thsi would be me, then you are affected by bands of roving druids in flight form that steal herbs on a 24/7/365 days a year basis. In DF the nodes are not all over the place and have tap limits. Limits which a 10 druid squad will wipe out. So even if yuo get there at the same time you wont get the herbs. WoW , retail wow, is now a disgusting we are goign to milk you for all yo are worth cash grab now. WoW is now a totally soul less game.
@Tithulta1
@Tithulta1 Жыл бұрын
My era server has inflated all raid related consumes and their mats, really pisses me off as I’ve never had a lot of gold. I multibox and I level many many alts. Buying mounts an riding skills for a group of 5 mages I run for fun, between that and my Naxx raiding I stay broke and when I try to farm mats it’s so damn annoying finding nothing on the layer I’m on 🤷🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
@davidcardinal3654
@davidcardinal3654 Жыл бұрын
How do you get around TOS? I was under the impression that was banned.
@alexanderlavrov6637
@alexanderlavrov6637 Жыл бұрын
@@davidcardinal3654 they don't care, lol They do a ban wave before the end of the quarter, just to boost their sales. Cos everyone will just get a new account and keep botting
@greglane334
@greglane334 Жыл бұрын
I've never played WoW but this is so interesting, thanks for putting the work in on this vid.
@suminshizzles6951
@suminshizzles6951 7 ай бұрын
dont start. I wish i never did. But ive spent more time on private servers that do not try to treat me like a cash cow to be milked
@jeffp.6349
@jeffp.6349 Жыл бұрын
With bots comes gold inflation. WoW will now make ppl buy multiple tokens to afford these inflated bot prices. Who dont go to the optional sites. Its pretty clever. Milk the remainjng players who want "safe" gold. I bought 25k gold early WoTLk and got a 3 days ban no big deal. They took 5k gold. Can only imagine how expensive shit is in gdkps. Someone put up 50k for his phase 1 bis helm lol
@Nightstalker314
@Nightstalker314 Жыл бұрын
0:30 That research is still wrong and you can keep deleting my comment on that as much as you want: What you got was the quarterly revenue for the WOW! streaming service that is offered by Sky TV in Europe.
@Paultootall1971
@Paultootall1971 Жыл бұрын
Well, after watch the past 3 vids by you on this, wish I knew more about this and had the skillset to do this myself years ago lol, would be much easier than working irl ;-) hehe
@Winning55
@Winning55 Жыл бұрын
countries with weak currencies benefit the most. It doesn't sell for much USD per 1k gold but if you live in a county like turkey where 1 USD IS worth 20 lira you can make more selling gold than working full time .
@teplokot8124
@teplokot8124 Жыл бұрын
A friend told me once - If you are playing a modern online game and is not payed for it you are doing something wrong And i thought he was joking Oh how naïve was i
@fieswow
@fieswow Жыл бұрын
this is crazy dude.. great work, awsome video!
@djockom
@djockom Жыл бұрын
What is their site, i want to buy from them
@tankoneday7051
@tankoneday7051 Жыл бұрын
Love your work Meta keep it up bro
@brandonlincoln778
@brandonlincoln778 Жыл бұрын
Metagoblin is like kira
@NamhadiNdemufayo
@NamhadiNdemufayo Жыл бұрын
It’s not botting. Banning botters is like arresting drug dealers. We lost the war on drugs because no one wanted to enforce 3 strike laws in suburbanite drug users. Gaming firms lost the war on RMT because they didn’t want to perma ban a tenth of their player base.
@dylan_uo9619
@dylan_uo9619 Жыл бұрын
Can these guys get me the rating required in RGB's so i can finally buy the replica field marshal gear?
@PsyrenXY
@PsyrenXY Жыл бұрын
Folks like you caring about that is the reason these people get so rich
@dylan_uo9619
@dylan_uo9619 Жыл бұрын
@@PsyrenXY I just want my transmog to be on fleek while i roam azeroth
@rogerbruere2135
@rogerbruere2135 Жыл бұрын
Wow these vids are so good. Cant wait for upcoming episodes!!
@StovnOG
@StovnOG Жыл бұрын
Bro I gotta work for one of those companies lmao
@Earthboundmike
@Earthboundmike Жыл бұрын
I mean, I'm not going to be upset at the people selling gold. It's more godamn respectable than a fair number of other professions. Besides, it's not making the game worse for everyone. Blizzard does that just fine on their own rofl.
@axrelis5762
@axrelis5762 Жыл бұрын
Wow themselves sells gold to them, it's obvious or they'd of been banned years ago. They haven't only not been banned, they've flourished!
@DesertTOON
@DesertTOON Жыл бұрын
Now I really want a sausage roll....
@denmarkball7728
@denmarkball7728 10 ай бұрын
They called it "Baneto" 😂😂
@Nightstalker314
@Nightstalker314 Жыл бұрын
10s of millions a month? With just the western playerbase? On average each player would be dropping 10$/€ or so each month. And the majority of players don't spend extra cash on this game. Sure you're not just getting lied to by a poser? Same goes for "The RMT industry". Is that any currency sales in any game? 9 Million gold per day on Wrath classic US (230k active characters, not accounts). Average value of a token is 4800 gold, so less than 2000 tokens of value and since you are undercutting it is not more than 30.000$ a day, less than 1 million a month. EU has slightly less active characters on Wrath Classic. Then I look at the offerings on Overgear and people are listing stockpiles of 100 Billion gold on 1 server. Nobody that has any clue about the gold economy of WoW would believe nonsense like that.
@ForOne814
@ForOne814 Жыл бұрын
Considering that I was making $800 on good days (32mil of retail gold), $500 on average, with just 90 accounts, 10s of millions a month sounds possible. WoW generates ridiculous amount of money, way beyond the highest numbers I imagined when I first started doing it.
@Nightstalker314
@Nightstalker314 Жыл бұрын
@@ForOne814 OMG, a russian player that is botting. And water is wet!
@ForOne814
@ForOne814 Жыл бұрын
@@Nightstalker314 true and real.
@alecaboss1073
@alecaboss1073 Жыл бұрын
this is just as disgusting as it is disturbing I couldn't play the video
@lozzar4
@lozzar4 Жыл бұрын
Best Series ghee love it
@BlueHans
@BlueHans Жыл бұрын
Funny how Turtle WoW won Blizzard's so called "unbeatable war". Practically 0 gold sellers. How? Warm flesh-GMs. Real, actual people taking care of things.
@LunaticOtaku
@LunaticOtaku Жыл бұрын
Really good video.
@logan27000
@logan27000 Жыл бұрын
The boosting companies have better customer service than blizzard kek
@RickW222
@RickW222 Жыл бұрын
living the vids, but can you please just use an A.I. voiceover? the girl is probably rly nice and all, but she reads up the texts like an '80's computer..
@killerhawks
@killerhawks Жыл бұрын
So OVERGEAR doesn't just make money off WOW. Do offer boosta for other games too..
@TheOtaxephon
@TheOtaxephon Жыл бұрын
Homie, just an FYI -- the "WOW" you used as a source for revenue at the beginning of this video is a broadband company (WideOpenWest), not World of Warcraft. That's a pretty glaring oversight.
@MetaGoblin
@MetaGoblin Жыл бұрын
You're actually wrong that's a different website underneath. I just didn't realise it was in the clip.
@TheOtaxephon
@TheOtaxephon Жыл бұрын
@@MetaGoblin my dude, Blizzard doesn't share WoW's revenue anywhere. You just took the first thing that showed up when you (hilariously misspelled) googled "wow revenue 2023." I respect the effort you put into these videos but this is just sloppy.
@MetaGoblin
@MetaGoblin Жыл бұрын
@@TheOtaxephon You're such a clown it's unreal. Everything is public 😂
@TheOtaxephon
@TheOtaxephon Жыл бұрын
@@MetaGoblin Brother, just admit you made a mistake. Activision intentionally avoids breaking down the specific revenue of World of Warcraft in their QRs because they do not want people like you making weird, obviously biased correlations between unknown figures. I could link it here but I trust as long as you can spell it properly that "Blizzard 2023 QR" isn't that hard for you to google. This oversight completely discredits your opening thesis because not only are you taking the word of a dude who cheats at WoW to compare the total revenue, the total revenue figure you used is entirely made the fuck up. Like I said, I appreciate your work and your videos are very well produced but you're flat out wrong on this one. Take the L and move on.
@theswedestfriend
@theswedestfriend Жыл бұрын
I think this is profiting blizzard in the long run
@nospamas8926
@nospamas8926 Жыл бұрын
Around 4 minutes in you talk about the legality of these things and making it illegal. I strongly disagree that being and able to sell stuff you have worked for should be in any way restricted or made illegal. This should include in game items. We're already seeing a huge erosion of consumer rights and ownership. For example, music on itunes, game on platforms like steam, online movie sales on platforms like youtube etc, lack of physical media has basically killed our ability to own and resell this stuff. What we need in better incentive structures to prevent these things, though I recognize this is challenging.
@mcfarvo
@mcfarvo Жыл бұрын
Hey, better these people bot and RMT in WoW than spend all day on internet/phone scams, right?
@killerhawks
@killerhawks Жыл бұрын
11:42 how do midagate gold botters and what not when your corporate culture SCREAMS DON'T WORK HERE. And you just just laid off a crap ton of people?
@3Zclap
@3Zclap 8 ай бұрын
and whats crazy is these websites often give you a way better deal then blizzard or any company, i recently started playing wow retail and blizzard are scummy af i bought a sub for my EU account, guess what cant have an EU account and play with NA friends so you have to make an NA account, i make an NA account and they want proof of residence for that county? bought a sub STILL FOR AN EU ACCOUNT!!!!!! so finally figured out how to purchase a sub for an NA account thats like $45 spent before im even in the damn game, then i want to buy a wow token "trying to be legit btw" cant buy a wow token because my original blizzard account is EU and im playing on NA servers so fup me i guess... so i have literally 0 choice if i want gold i have to buy from a 3rd party, and then its time to buy the expansion... so im looking on the market to buy TWW so i can level to 70 etc i buy it guess what... IT DEFAULTS TO THE EU ACCOUNT I DONT EVEN HAVE A DAMN SUBSCRIPTION FOR so i have to buy it again and figure that out, how tf are blizzard getting away with this B.S and why is no one saying anything
@logan27000
@logan27000 Жыл бұрын
Definitely dont believe the "we dont buy gold from bots" claim..
@sinmyoung77
@sinmyoung77 10 ай бұрын
US server I want to buy wow gold where can i buy it. not g2g site
@mattvitalis789
@mattvitalis789 Жыл бұрын
Love the intros.
@clout13r
@clout13r 11 ай бұрын
Ban the buyers Voilà!
@kairesu5847
@kairesu5847 Жыл бұрын
yep thats why im like - fuck wow these days and anything aswell as anyone who promotes wow knowing this shit is going on
@wowalohaahaa
@wowalohaahaa Жыл бұрын
all of the numbers mentioned in the video are bullshit. and they dont have a office building with all those things, they just have a adress on paper in cyprus just like every scammy gambling site
@EvlEgle
@EvlEgle Жыл бұрын
"makes the product worse" in your opinion. I really value the service they provide. I couldn't have gotten my warglaive transmog without overgear. I tried like hell to find a group. My guild could not give a shit about doing BT time walk, would rather do current raid tiers. Joined overgear raid for 19$. Illidan Kill entire raid was warlock summon to Illi-D and and he was dead in less than 15 minutes. got my achievment. got my transmog.
@3Zclap
@3Zclap 8 ай бұрын
yeah this guy is lost in the blizzard sauce the game is not worse off for gold sellers its probably better off, this kinda guy is the kinda guy to cry about service chat in wow when he can literally just turn it off in the settings people like this guy want to gate keep wow and stop anyone new from playing the game and enjoying it but they still cry when they say the game is dead and no one new is playing
@samuelcann8330
@samuelcann8330 Жыл бұрын
maybe im just dumb or dont understand the law on this but couldnt this all be solved by blizzard asking their customers to agree to "deep scans " while they are playing wow. as a customer myself i would agree if it ment removing gold farming bots. then surely without bot farming to back it up gold selling would decline . im not even sure i would mind gold selling if it was players farming and selling .
@insu_na
@insu_na Жыл бұрын
No, that would not be OK. Not only because of EU law, but also because of the potential for abuse. Once you've installed malware on your computer what's to say that others won't follow in the security holes it leaves? Bots are very easy to detect purely serverside. ABK would just have to do it, but they have a vested interest not to.
@TRG29338
@TRG29338 Жыл бұрын
Absolutely not.
@JimmyRond
@JimmyRond Жыл бұрын
Id still rather buy a greggs sausage roll than gold
@YaaALI313
@YaaALI313 Жыл бұрын
That makes me not to play wow i never did and now ? Idk
@teplokot8124
@teplokot8124 Жыл бұрын
Its not just Blizzard and WoW. It is happening in any competitive game even the truly free to play games like Teamfight Tactics. Real life economics are just so unstable at this moment that people turn to every opportunity at hand to make some cash on the side. And if they are good at it then it quickly becomes a better stay at home job without a manager breathing down your neck and mandatory corporate bullshit. This is the reality of the world we are live in.
@yungsheng44
@yungsheng44 Жыл бұрын
grow.. grow.. grow..
@tannermason4315
@tannermason4315 Жыл бұрын
I cannot wait to buy gold on HC servers. 💜
@Diceman82
@Diceman82 Жыл бұрын
Pfft just 2 years with no bans? Casuals :p
@humblebee1895
@humblebee1895 Жыл бұрын
Here from Asmon. TY for the video
@TrenchDemon1
@TrenchDemon1 Жыл бұрын
Shit bro ima apply
@philbuttler3427
@philbuttler3427 8 ай бұрын
People being conspiratorial about Blizzard in the comments are wild.
@big123lak
@big123lak Жыл бұрын
Yooo I make so much gold but I can’t get it to real cash I do heroic raid Carries m+ Carrie’s up to 20+ I flip transmogs and pets with a stock worth over 1bil and constantly buy out to flip plz help me sell my gold to survive in life
@karerabbe7829
@karerabbe7829 Жыл бұрын
So glad i play on a private server, fkk Blizzard
@papat1ful
@papat1ful Жыл бұрын
bottings happen every popular games.
@the_rzer
@the_rzer Жыл бұрын
newsflash.. rmt sites = blizzard?
@HD-fc4ds
@HD-fc4ds Жыл бұрын
Kinda bs stat, there are no player base left to do such numbers. Seems like a self promotion in style of "fake it, till you make it" If they make hundred of millions, offices in business centers, you could've search 1 photo of it during those "100 hours" you were making this video. No company besides publicly traded will share its financial stat.
@Felixthehunk
@Felixthehunk Жыл бұрын
i agree, inflated numbers imo. skeptical at best and not an ounce of proof of any of the statements made.
@Xinergy
@Xinergy Жыл бұрын
Agreed, these might be numbers for a gaming wide RMT scene. Not just WoW like he's making it look like.
@RealJonSarge
@RealJonSarge Жыл бұрын
What state are they incorperated in? if they are a real business they have to submit their tax info that you can find
@reantixxmangata7302
@reantixxmangata7302 Жыл бұрын
Great vid
@MrPsykopeta
@MrPsykopeta Жыл бұрын
it's really much much easier than you would expect, these ppl make money from some artificial nuissance blizzard decide to make, if let's say, tomorrow every random drop would be 10x the price in the vendor, these ppl would get a direct cut of 10x automatically (they don't create gold, they make it from vendors, then gdkp, then rmt, then gdkp, then rmt, but the 1st step is always vendoring) but blizzard can't do that because "uh suddenly players can pay the month with only 1 day grind", great, it would go from 1% of the players who can do that using the AH to... 10% using vendors? most players don't thing it's worth their time for that, while fucking a whole economy bigger than the game itself (isn't that nice? sad? dunno) would only move players "who need 10 days to farm gold for 1 token to need only 1 day", and dumbfucks who contribute to the gold gdkp inflation via rmt suddenly would pay much less $ for much less gold to buy the same item
@rogerioalves8863
@rogerioalves8863 Жыл бұрын
i totally support that company, they are harming no one and using as business opportunity just like many others
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