Does gold sink can save the inflation in World of Warcraft?

Blizzard is surrendering the war against inflation. Now what’s the good solution? Take a look below. But firstly, get a good understanding of gold sink and its significance.

So what is a gold sink? What does it relates to World of Warcraft?

For one who is new to the concept, a gold sink is simply some (usually) non-essential item or service that takes money out of the World of Warcraft economy. It is commonly called drains or gold drains. It can also be associated with item drains. Take WoW ages, game designers put more large gold sinks into the game. At first, advanced riding skills were gold sinks (900g to get the ability to use a 100% speed ground mount — a lot of money at the time). Now, gold sinks typically take the form of mounts and items. In Wrath, there was the 20,000g Reins of the Traveler’s Tundra Mammoth. The materials to craft Vial of the Sands cost around 30,000g. Even in patch 4.2, we have a few smaller (but definite) gold sinks: the 1,300g+ Crimson Lasher pet, the 1,300g+ Hyjal Bear Cub pet, the 437g Mushroom Chair, and the 3,000g+ Mylune’s Call.

Gold sinks are often seen as luxury items, a way to flaunt wealth. But that’s not why they exist. They’re small battles in the losing but necessary war against inflation in World of Warcraft.

Someone, gamers or proficient’s, said that the gold inequality is the problem. While Blizzard Lead Designer Tome Chinton cites, “No gold sinks are coming soon because of the large variance in the amount of gold players have”. This is Blizzard given to us. It seems that he doesn’t know the actual situation in World of Warcraft. Big players are racking up bankrolls in the millions and even tens of millions. Even for causal gold cappers, five – digit account balances are the norm and having hundreds of thousands is far from rare. This is the real problem; inequality leads to more inflation, and more inflation requires people to do more to keep up.

Gold sinks generally draw interest from all players. For example, everyone wants that Tundra Mammoth, since it offers the ability to repair on the fly. New mounts have a cool factor. But none of this stuff is necessary for players to have. It’s just a little something extra to keep the economy from falling apart.

Certainly, if Blizzard doesn’t want to put in a new gold sink, one would hope it’s got a plan to deal with the worse situation the inflation bought in. Anyone gets an efficient solution to solve the inflation? Of course, inflation doesn’t require a gold sink, but it’s the most elegant solution indeed as it seems to be now.

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