This likely isn't a conscious change, everyone is way too quick to jump to conspiracy on these things. It's not like vendor prices are individually set per piece of equipment.That said, it's likely they're also aware as it seems like the amount of raw coin that drops and the vendor value of grey items in Shadowlands is abnormally high.
For everyone bringing up complaints on a fansite comment thread:Go and leave CONSTRUCTIVE feedback on the official forums.Explain what the impact is (and we know it is due to the level and ilevel squish), and that this is going to hurt players that are not capable of competing with the Auction House proficient ones and/or multiboxers, as this proved to be a consistent source of gold for players with time, and has for years on end.This is a casualty of another system change, not a flat-out intended nerf. Gold value of gear is directly connected to item level of the piece. It is also something they can adjust. Even if it's not from the item values themselves, they could boost the raw gold drop from raid bosses in legacy content, to compensate for the lost item value (but only in Legacy Mode raids/dungeons, so it wouldn't apply to BfA content until later in Shadowlands life-cycle).Stop with the incessant whining, look at the problem logistically, and present the issue in a constructive form to Blizzard, in the PTR/Beta forums, where they will look at things first.Will it get changed? No idea, but does not hurt to try.Will it get changed if nothing is said in a reasonable manner? Almost certainly not.
Nerfing the gold dumped to the economy should deflate the value of about everything. This change is to control the amount of gold that can be made by, the ever increasing, raid farming. Without this kind of thing (and gold sinks like the brutesaur) the economy will get crazy (like, the token used to cost 20k in wod, it got to around 250k in legion).
I just lvled my own copied toon 50-60 on beta. Started with about 13k gold and had 28k as I dinged 60. If that's how much you make just from quests and vendors in SL, they HAVE to nerf gold from older content, if they don't want extreme inflation.
Sooooo, since it never gets touched I'd like to ask:Garrison items being cheaper to build/purchase?Are those pricey mounts on vendors being reduced in price?My guess its just another sweeping change without a look at the things you buy.WoWhead ask the developers to look into those things. You must have a line to them. Ask them about server connections as well, since that seemed to have just vanished into thin air.I fear that making it harder to earn gold will just result in even more bots/gold services. Also, everything becoming more of a time sink if you don't have large gold reserves.
This is a very bad move. Gold farming kept the old content alive and fun to run. Why do you keep nerfing things that people enjoy? We know you have a cash shop and you want to sell tokens but come on.
So many people with high school degrees pretending they are economists in this post. What an exhausting player base.
#WorldOfNerfCraftThis expansion will flop, i'm going to FF14
I'll enforce what a few players have already said. The squish coincidentally decreases the total amount of gold made ingame meaning that eventually the market will deflate if SL doesn't change this drastically. Not next week, likely not half a year into Shadowlands either. But eventually all the millions currently still floating around will be used for some sink that does not flow back to players: be it gold cap on the BMAH (10mil/pc), spider mounts (2mil/pc), Rustbolt/Army mounts (0.5mil/pc) or anything worth over a ton (+0.1mil/pc).
more like Wow: shadownerfs
Well somehow strange why they will accept gold within the shadowlands.
Hope they will change the prices from the vendor... i dont believe new players cannot purchase flying mounts with 80k Gold anymore...
You guys are forgetting that Legion raids (that possibly drops more loot than ever before) will become solo farmable when SL is out.