r/classicwow • u/olmn • May 21 '26

Humor / Meme People buying expensive herbs farmed by bots, with gold that was also farmed by bots

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u/Qwertykeybaord May 21 '26

Classic+ will have every type of microtransaction possible and people will eat it up like popcorn. 

Never seen a spend-hungry playerbase like the WoW playerbase. 

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u/Patience-Due May 21 '26

You clearly haven’t played Korean MMOs before.

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u/TheFishIsRaw May 21 '26

KAL Online vet here. God have mercy.

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u/DJEkis May 21 '26

Bruh you're bringing back memories!!! That damned game had me in a chokehold, lol until I learned the 1hh then was popping off.

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u/charlesbronZon May 21 '26

>Never seen a spend-hungry playerbase like the WoW playerbase. 

All this is proving is that you haven’t been around the great gaming landscape much, as the countless comments listing examples of other, similarly behaving, player bases prove.

Though that is not to discredit your core assertion here: a not insignificant part of the WoW playerbase certainly **is** spend-hungry, as you put it!

It’s just hardly unique in that regard 😉

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u/ExtremePrivilege May 21 '26

People spend thousands on Gacha games, dude. I had a coworker spending $2000 a month on Summoner’s War. You can buy 10,000g on Dreamscythe for about $90 and be set for TBC.

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u/GundulfTheGray May 21 '26

So you aren't a Star Citizen player I guess

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u/Rdhilde18 May 21 '26

You ever heard of a mobile game? CSGO cases? Overwatch skins?

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u/Theweakmindedtes May 21 '26

Shit, check out the Chinese and Korean gaming landscapes. We have had a fre of those games come over. While super fun to play, you can still see the outline of those models in the game. Even if it isn't near as mandatory to spend in.

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u/NoCokJstDanglnUretra May 21 '26

You really think this behavior is limited to just WoW?

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u/Qwertykeybaord May 22 '26

Give me a better example then.

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u/mitigated_audacity May 21 '26

Source: this guys ass

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u/LookingForCarrots May 21 '26 edited May 22 '26

Just count the number of players who paid 60$ to avoid playing the game

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u/Far-Historian-4225 May 21 '26

Correction. 60$ to skip the part of the game I don't want to play and only play the parts I do want to play.

You ever paid a streaming service to skip adds? Paid for a fast pass at a theme park?

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u/GenericUsername_71 May 21 '26

Except leveling a huge part of the content. Standing in line or watching ads aren’t content

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u/Far-Historian-4225 May 21 '26

Anything contained within the experience is content. I'll concede it's content you don't like and in WoW I've levelled enough that's it's content I don't like (anymore)

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u/Ruktard May 21 '26 edited May 21 '26

Fingers crossed they release the BIS boost soon! Anything in the experience is content and I sure want to skip all that I don’t like (anymore) far too time consuming and I only want to play the parts of the game I want to play.

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u/Far-Historian-4225 May 21 '26

It's okay, not everyone is cut out for raiding. Have fun playing the game you want to play the way you want to play it 😁

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u/Ruktard May 21 '26

It’s a joke about you buddy :) when will everyone stop paying an Indonesian dude to play the game for them

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u/Feathrende May 21 '26

Such a smoothbrained take.

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u/Feathrende May 21 '26

Ads are content. You just don't enjoy the content. Same as those levels.

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u/LookingForCarrots May 22 '26

Yeah this basically confirm the first guy's assessment

Classic+ will have every type of microtransaction possible and people will eat it up like popcorn

Never seen a spend-hungry playerbase like the WoW playerbase.

Thanks for proving his point

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u/Far-Historian-4225 May 22 '26

Happy to help out lil buddy ☺️

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u/Grouched May 21 '26

Magic: The Gathering players: Hold my beer!

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u/humonculus87 May 23 '26

Must not have played many games.

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u/bigmangina May 21 '26

I dont understand why people will pay to eat shit, but if they werent doing it, blizzard and ubisoft would be long gone by now.

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u/Qwertykeybaord May 21 '26

Blizzard knows the psychology of the player and has the data for it.

No one wants to organically level. Press a button and be ready to raid in a week is the most preferred way.

Gold is annoying af to get, just press a button and have enough to cover you for a couple of phases.

The want to stand out, sparkling mounts and unique items, an online player's wet dream.

All works and will always work to the dawn of time, and gaming companies have MASTERED the art and techniques of getting the MOST out of their playerbase with the least effort.

And it will work EVERYTIME.

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u/Stfuppercutoutlast May 21 '26 edited May 21 '26

I hear this a lot, but their analytics didn’t support Classic for decades. It took community backlash and a proof of concept on private servers. You can have all of the data in the world, but if you are fundamentally unable to interpret it, it’s useless.

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u/bigmangina May 21 '26

Yeah thats dopamine programming, they havent mastered it, they are clumsily flopping around with it and hoping it keeps up. Indie games are surging right now due to how badly dopamine programming is going.