wow gold farming

[kache]

I had someone try to control the market on the server I was on in BC. Sorry for the sap, i had funds and time up my sleeve, in that I would farm so much of the stuff he tried to control, and undercut him with 10-15 stacks or items or whatever by 20% or more.

He would buy all them out and repost at his price, then I posted another 10-15 at 15% less price.

Repeat until I get bitched at and then I report them and in their 24hr absence I destroy the market to low prices. Or until they give up.

Worked often enough. I don't take kindly to monopolizers. I also hate people who post 100x 1 of a herb/ore.

I was talking about extremely rare (but in my case only useful for a single class) items, rare as in 2 per month, in a server with a population of 50k+ players farming...
Normal price for that piece was ~20k gold, ans there were max 20 ppl of us interested. Then a market player comes, buys that piece for 20k before we manage to contact the seller and tries selling it back to us for 100k gold...
You have no idea how many insults he received.

 

[dud]

People actually do all this? People actually have the free time to play these games for the amount of time to do all this?

I've played my share of games in the last 30 years and always wondered whether it might be "unhealthy" for me and the family.

This thread confirms that there are others who have less of a life than myself (if it were at all possible) and that I am (relatively) OK. Thanks for posting this crap OP ...

 

[kache]

People actually do all this? People actually have the free time to play these games for the amount of time to do all this?

I've played my share of games in the last 30 years and always wondered whether it might be "unhealthy" for me and the family.

This thread confirms that there are others who have less of a life than myself (if it were at all possible) and that I am (relatively) OK. Thanks for posting this crap OP ...

Well, generally in MMORPGs you can't really enjoy everything without high end gear.
So you either put money into it, or you put time into it (or both).
Or you play them in a shallow manner, but in that case might as well play SP games, or normal MP games, where there is not much to achieve.

 

[Skott]

People actually do all this? People actually have the free time to play these games for the amount of time to do all this?

I've played my share of games in the last 30 years and always wondered whether it might be "unhealthy" for me and the family.

This thread confirms that there are others who have less of a life than myself (if it were at all possible) and that I am (relatively) OK. Thanks for posting this crap OP ...

Well, some people play video games instead of watching tv. Think about how many hours a person spends watching tv. Its quite a bit. The younger folk have more free time as well so they got even more time to spend in game. And then you got the really smart people that have the game all figured out and know how to do this. They have a knack for knowing how an in game economy is and how it all works. Like day traders at the stock market. They make it work. Only a handfull actually make real money at this though. By that I mean a significant amount to where they dont have to get a job although I doubt even then they are rich or well off.

 

[Denithor]

Ah, this thread really brings back some good memories for me.

I never made it into those kind of numbers but I found it ridiculously easy to make gold from the crafting mats. My first toon was a warlock with tailoring and enchanting, collected tailoring mats to make into the gear to level that prof, disenchanted into mats. Started out small selling just the extra mats as I was finished with a range in the enchanting skill, realized there was really great gold to be had from them. Started buying up all kinds of greens to DE into mats, really churned through the stuff. None of my friends could figure out how I was able to level up my skills so quickly and generate large amounts of gold so quickly at the same time.

It grew from there, into ores and gems and a few other areas. I basically had two specialties on each of my toons, would log in, search the AH for various things, buy up anything below certain prices and then post back up either stacks or singles depending on the market. It was kinda funny, I ended up "playing" the AH more than I did the game itself. My buddies kinda grumbled I wasn't raiding as much anymore but not too much because I kept tossing gold into the guild bank or adding really nice equipment/consumables constantly.

Good times.