Cortyn confesses. Because the MeinMMO demon has enriched itself at your expense in World of Warcraft – and feels like a stock swindler.
You surely know this in World of Warcraft. You just have a bit of “downtime” between visiting dungeons and completing world quests. You meet an acquaintance in Valdrakken and play the usual game: “Let’s just throw our toy box on the ground and spam all kinds of toys.”
Exactly this is what we did a few days ago and noticed that the tents like “Expedition Tent of the Dragonflight Expedition” behave somehow differently. Instead of just spawning “wild in the wilderness” as before, the tents appeared right above our characters and even lasted a whopping 15 minutes.
Since we are both role players, the implications were immediately clear to us: This opens up entirely new possibilities in role-playing, and every RP player within 3 realms will be licking their fingers to set up their own tent everywhere.
This realization from my everyday play in World of Warcraft then led to the article “Blizzard listens to role players – The best change in patch 10.0.5” on MeinMMO.
Here, the story could have actually ended. But it didn’t, because I know how “my RPers” tick, and this ignited my greed for gold a bit.
Greedy demon buys materials for 4,000 gold – sells tent for 57,000 gold
As fate would have it, my character is skilled in tailoring and was able to craft the nicest of the three tents, the “Expedition Tent of the Dragonflight Expedition”.
About 10 minutes later, I had bought the materials for 30 of the tents from the auction house and immediately listed the tents back.
I could tell you that the pure material costs for a single tent were around 4,000 gold pieces at that time, but I better keep that to myself. Otherwise, the following pictures might make some people gasp:
I felt like I was in a “Pump and Dump” scam
I was able to sell all of the tents for prices between 25,000 and 60,000 gold. You know the trick: “List a few items very expensively and others much cheaper, so that the cheaper one looks like a good deal.”
The tents sold like hotcakes. I even had to push in another 20 tents before other tailors entered the market and things started to calm down a bit.
I must admit, I felt a tiny bit like those stock fraudsters who hype a lot of people to buy a stock all at once, causing the price to skyrocket, and then sell.
Do I feel bad? A bit, but it’s manageable. Because of course I spent most of the gold right away to buy myself some ridiculous toys for too much gold, which I will probably use exactly three times in the next few years, only to forget about them again.
Besides, I’m quite convinced that the role players will derive their benefits from the tents and will use them very, very often in the coming years.
With that said: Thanks to the players of Aldor. Thank you for your gold, have fun with the tents. And I hope you all have nice RP experiences with them while I enjoy a weekend with umbrella drinks in the most expensive bar in Valdrakken.
