I know we don't have much of a following (or any...?) at this point but I feel like I've let you, whoever you are, down. Iji keeps finding other games to get distracted by and I'm finally a real person with a job so my gaming time has significantly lessened. Once we both get some time and I get my own account, we'll get back to playing WoW like nobodies business. Oh, and once we get quality computers. My laptop isn't exactly a beast...
We've been playing Minecraft together but it isn't very easy to blog about. They would be the most boring posts ever. We're considering starting -drum roll- A LET'S PLAY! We definitely can't start it until one of us has a sexy beast computer but we've come up with some smashing ideas :D
Anywho, I wanted to apologize for being absent. I figure someone missed me. Anyone?
It's cool, I wouldn't fess up to it either.
Love and groping,
Ixi
P.S. I think I'm going to start my own blog soon. A more personal one about the life and times of me. I may not be super exciting but I feel that my constant internal dialogue has a place on the internet.
Friday, November 23, 2012
Monday, November 5, 2012
Pet Battle Battle-Stones
I'm only going to cover the one I deem the most important.
BATTLE-STONES
Polished and Flawless Battle-Stones are going to not only make some of your vendor pet favorites more viable but could also increase their value on the AH.
Although the vendor pets market took a huge hit with the introduction of pet battles on my realm I still make enough profit to not duck out of it completely. I can see more pets being valuable now that rarity will be a non-issue.
Part of me wanted to make this post as thorough as possible and provide some examples of currently underpowered pets that could be considerably bolstered by the advent of the battle stones. The other part of me was way more excited than any grown man should be about WoW pet battles and I giggled all the way to my PC to write this up as quickly as possible. (There may have been skipping involved)
I may come back and add some examples after playing around with it for a while. Til then, thanks for reading my rant!
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Friday, November 2, 2012
Cross Realm Auction House
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| Coming soon to an AH near you! |
This will also be my first "gold making" post! Excited to get started so let's get to the topic.
Cross Realm Auction Houses? What's Your Opinion?
Is the CRAH a good or bad idea? What would you predict would happen to the auction economy? Does the notion excite or horrify you? Would a CRAH [b]e good or bad for WoW?
Ok, so apparently during a World of Warcraft Developer AMA, Tom Chilton said,
I hope Tom Chilton's idea of a "viable economy" is the same as mine.
I think the Cross Realm Auction House is a horrible idea.
For sellers this would mean WAY more competition. Any Goblin with a massive amount of gold to spend may be able to completely dominate a market for a while, but even then I can't see it lasting very long. I think everything would eventually tank to the point where Goblin's will be making very little, if any, profit on anything.
Think about the idiots that steeply undercut on your server alone. Market price 500g? They don't know/care. They'll post for 100g all day, every day and undercut by 1g+ every time they see someone undercut them. It would turn into the glyph market all over again.
Cross Realm Zones are already a problem for farmers. More so for the casual that farms just to make a little gold on the side, than the hardcore farmers. (Read: Botters)
Cross Faction profits would tank as well because there would be more supply in their everyday AH.
On a smaller server you can easily control markets and to some extent create demand. That kind of market manipulation would be gone with the CRAH. You could say goodbye to your niche markets
For a buyer though I could see this as a huge boon. Even more so if you happen to be on a low population realm. That's where the good aspects of the CRAH would end though.
TL;DR - Your profit margin might be so small your time would be better spent in a dungeon than at the AH.
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"... With regard to the auction house, I can imagine a future where we might decide to make auction houses cross-server. It's not something to jump into lightly, but there may be ways to design a cross-realm auction house that ensures a viable economy without getting "too big"."
I hope Tom Chilton's idea of a "viable economy" is the same as mine.
I think the Cross Realm Auction House is a horrible idea.
For sellers this would mean WAY more competition. Any Goblin with a massive amount of gold to spend may be able to completely dominate a market for a while, but even then I can't see it lasting very long. I think everything would eventually tank to the point where Goblin's will be making very little, if any, profit on anything.
Think about the idiots that steeply undercut on your server alone. Market price 500g? They don't know/care. They'll post for 100g all day, every day and undercut by 1g+ every time they see someone undercut them. It would turn into the glyph market all over again.
Cross Realm Zones are already a problem for farmers. More so for the casual that farms just to make a little gold on the side, than the hardcore farmers. (Read: Botters)
Cross Faction profits would tank as well because there would be more supply in their everyday AH.
On a smaller server you can easily control markets and to some extent create demand. That kind of market manipulation would be gone with the CRAH. You could say goodbye to your niche markets
For a buyer though I could see this as a huge boon. Even more so if you happen to be on a low population realm. That's where the good aspects of the CRAH would end though.
TL;DR - Your profit margin might be so small your time would be better spent in a dungeon than at the AH.
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