Tuesday night was interesting. Several people in the raid where in on alt characters (Including yours truly who took his hunter Lazyeye.) So, it became fascinating to see how we handled so much change. The deeps was a little lower over all, but mechanics seemed to be the demon of the night. We still one shot Kargatch and The Butcher. Butcher had some rough spots though. Twin Ogron kept setting us on fire because we just weren't avoiding it very well. We finally got them down at the end of the night, but we only got 3/7 for Highmaul this week.
Wednesday we managed to get Gruul down on the first pull that wasn't an accident. It felt good and we moved on to Hans and Franz again. We managed on the final pull to get them down to 10% but we have some more work to do here. Hopefully next week.
Let's get to the meat shall we.
Blizzard is going to allow people to buy game time tokens and sell them on the auctionhouse. As of yet a price hasn't been set for this token, so we don't know how much it's going to set us back. My honest guess is it will be $15 for 30 days, not cheaper (because then it would be cheaper to get tokens rather then a subscription) and I don't think it will be much more expensive. Maybe a dollar or two as a "service fee."
I am not sure where I stand on this yet. I like the idea of being able to use gold for game time, but we don't know how much gold it's going to cost yet either. That price will be set by the community on the AH. My honest opinion is that anything over 10k I won't spend. Even then I will hesitate as I haven't had the play time to earn a lot of gold lately. I would like to say when they did the guardian cub years ago he was $10, and he stared out for about that 10K price, but eventually dropped down to 5k or so. This only means so much because the economy has been inflated a lot since then. But it does give us an example of what has happened in the past.
The obvious pitfall here is that if the game time sells for too much gold only a select amount of players will be able to afford it. At that point it will be a benifit for the elite few who make a lot of gold off the AH, and the rest of us will occasionally be able to get a month for free if we are lucky. I am sure that this is not what Blizzard intends, but it may be what it becomes. In that case if you want to buy gold it might be lucritive to drop an extra $15 or so here and there and pick up some in game currency.
The bonus is that if it works out right, then the price will drop down to a point where the everyday player can afford to drop gold on time if thats what they choose to do. Now, to be fair, I don't think that this idea will work if everyone in game can afford to buy time off the auction house. I think the average player should be able to afford to buy time every couple of months or so. There will be people who never can afford this, but I am hoping those are in the minority if this is implimented correctly. At least that is my opinion. For all I know Blizzard is looking at this in a whole different light.
How do you feel about buying WoW time with gold? Are you going to participate in this as a buyer or seller? What thoughts have I missed?
Lag/Lazyeye.
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