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In Search of Fortune: Quick Tips & Gold Update

May 17, 2021May 17, 2021

Welcome to ‘In Search of Fortune’, a monthly series where I discuss my gold goals and in-game money making strategies.

It’s been a lazy month in the gold making world for me. Missed a few days scanning and posting on the AH, no farming at all, barely any crafting and only a handful of callings completed. I’m just doing my AH flips and the covenant mission table – still up almost 400k in the last month. I did notice a few things I wanted to point out that leads to this pretty casual gold making from someone being very casual with WoW currently

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Is It Pay to Win? World of Warcraft

Is it Pay to Win?: World of Warcraft

April 10, 2021April 10, 2021

Welcome to ‘Is it Pay to Win’ – a column where we examine a game and decide if that game is has aspects of pay to win and to what extent. Check out Is it Pay to Win?: Defined to see how we break down the components of pay to win (p2w), such as pay for advantage, pay for convenience, and pay for cosmetics.

World of Warcraft is a game that needs no introduction, but, we’re going to do it anyway. World of Warcraft or WoW is one of the worlds preeminent MMORPGs. It has a purchase cost (buy to play), a monthly subscription (pay to play), a token that can be bought with cash and sold for in game currency, and cash shop with game services and cosmetics.

Scoring:

Pay for Power: 3/5
Pay for Advantage: 5/5
Pay for Convenience: 3/5
Pay for Cosmetics: 4/5
Pay to Win: 3.4/5

Continue reading to see a game description and how we came up with those scores.

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In Search of Fortune: Nothing New

April 6, 2021April 7, 2021

Welcome to ‘In Search of Fortune’, a monthly series where I discuss my gold goals and in-game money making strategies.

So, I may have missed a month in there somewhere. Unfortunately, it’s because it was a slow month… months. Really, isn’t the whole Shadowlands expansion a little slow, though? For me, not terribly slow in terms of gold making, I’m still hitting almost 600k per month in profit, just, well, nothing that different from the last post. There are a couple of things, though, that I wanted to highlight. So continue reading for some interesting examples flips from my mailbox and my TSM breakdown screen for the past 3 months.

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Shadowlands Patch 9.1: What We Got Right & What’s Coming Instead

March 12, 2021March 26, 2021

So… we made some predictions about patch 9.1. While we got more right than wrong, it seems, there was a couple areas we completely missed the mark on. Read on to see what we got right, what we got wrong, what’s still unknown and our thoughts on 9.1 release date now.

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Shadowlands Predictions Part 2: Patch 9.1

January 16, 2021January 16, 2021

WoW’s Shadowlands patch 9.1 is coming up… soon? In this post, we’ll discuss the release date based on historical x.1 patch dates (remember how we were right about the Shadowlands release date, until they changed it), new legendaries (maybe), the new raid, our guess for tier sets in this patch, and more. As always, make sure to subscribe or book mark or just remember alternateimage.net/gaming or however people find websites these days… because there will continue to be information on Warcraft’s upcoming content as well as other games.

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Blizzard Bans Account with 100 Million Gold Over “New” Unannounced Rule

January 6, 2021January 6, 2021

I don’t normally make this sort of news post, but it is important for even more people to see both the new rule, the story, and to be aware of the kind of things Blizzard will do to your account and how their GMs will behave regarding those things. It seems a World of Warcraft player had an account banned for a new rule that Blizzard hasn’t announced, posted anywhere, told anyone or otherwise informed the players about. After the break, see the entire reddit post embed along with the Wowhead link where I found this story that has additional images of the posters conversation with Blizzard GMs.

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