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[dorchadas]

The WoW token has come to classic.

From Blizzard's website:

WoW Tokens provide players with a convenient, sanctioned, secure way to exchange gold for game time or Battle.net Balance directly through the in-game Auction House. Getting gold has never been simpler!

Bluntly, it's pay to win, the exact scourge that is corrupting all of modern gaming with monetization and deliberately making games worse but letting you pay to make them okay again. Not necessarily by default, but Classic is full of GDKP runs--raids where people spend their in-game gold to bid on item drops. Being able to spend real money--at a $20 per token to 15$ WoW subscription price, no less--ends up with more power. And this is especially funny because Blizzard decided not to put the automatic dungeon finder into classic to maintain the community feel, even though the automatic dungeon finder was introduced during the original Wrath of the Lich King, but they are putting in the WoW token because they're throwing up their hands at combatting RMT and gold sellers. If you can't beat them [scammers and thieves], join them [scammers and thieves].

Especially funny because Blizzard president Mike Ybarra's guild sells raid boosts. I think they weren't so reluctant to introduce the WoW token as they claim.

Yeah, I don't think I'll be buying Diablo IV.