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I quit playing a long time ago but would randomly activate my account because my friend started playing when i was starting to quit, so I'd pay my 15 log on and help power level him some, but outside of that just never played much....
I played for vanilla all the way to a few weeks after cata launch(with a few months lapse here and there towards the end of TBC/WOTLK waiting for the next expansion). Supposedly the WoW subscriptions are really coming down with the majority in china. Im honestly not quite sure what about it made me not want to play much anymore, but since my raiding guild fell apart in beginning of WOTLK and I was one of the first lvl 85s on my server I just kinda ran out of people to play with and playing an MMO as a single player isn't...very fun even with the new pug services they had put in.
Infact I remember when i use to go to the forums a few months ago after cata was released and seeing all this stuff about low pop servers needing to be merged just kinda left a bad taste in my mouth....that and waiting fucking 25 minutes as a DPS to find a random pug group.
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On May 27 2011 05:27 Snuggles wrote:Show nested quote +On May 27 2011 05:20 love.less wrote:
characters used to sell because of the grind involved in getting high end gear up until wrath you basically get nothing now because its fast and easy to get geared up
also it does no harm sitting there doing nothing you might want to come back one day=] I think that's mainly for the PvE side of things. PvP is still a grind and unattainable for players who can't perform in arena. But yeah the market sure does look stale... but I don't think it'd hurt to just throw my account up and see what happens. But one disturbing thing that caught my eye was the Starcraft 2 section of MMObay =_=. They're selling a service to promote your account to diamond and masters for like $70! Really sad to see something like that when most of our members here are capable of getting into those leagues lol.
Honestly it's not even worth selling unless you have several glad titles and or rare mounts, they simply just don't sell for enough for it to be worth it, especially if you have to buy sc2 again (this is all excluding sentimental value later on in your life and also just because you may not think you'll ever play again now but who knows in the future!). I don't know where you're getting your figures from but it seems to me like you're looking at an auction listing site or something where the accounts are marked up ridiculously and won't sell (they don't pay you these prices, they pay you like 10% of these prices then relist them)
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Be careful when you do, a lot of people do it via scams/faked credit cards just to take your gold. In fact most of the gold on the market (that people buy from) is usually from shady means. THe thing is if you get scammed you can't do anything because it's hard to prove you gave the goods and the other thing is you aren't supposed to do that anyways so it's not like you can talk to blizzard if youve been scammed.
I don't reccomend doing it unless you get actual CASH/local dealings
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you dont happen to be a druid from a firetree are you?
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I quit about a year ago, never looked back. Selling accounts has turned poor from what I have heard  Gl bro!
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On May 27 2011 05:46 Sae wrote:Show nested quote +On May 27 2011 05:27 Snuggles wrote:On May 27 2011 05:20 love.less wrote:
characters used to sell because of the grind involved in getting high end gear up until wrath you basically get nothing now because its fast and easy to get geared up
also it does no harm sitting there doing nothing you might want to come back one day=] I think that's mainly for the PvE side of things. PvP is still a grind and unattainable for players who can't perform in arena. But yeah the market sure does look stale... but I don't think it'd hurt to just throw my account up and see what happens. But one disturbing thing that caught my eye was the Starcraft 2 section of MMObay =_=. They're selling a service to promote your account to diamond and masters for like $70! Really sad to see something like that when most of our members here are capable of getting into those leagues lol. Honestly it's not even worth selling unless you have several glad titles and or rare mounts, they simply just don't sell for enough for it to be worth it, especially if you have to buy sc2 again (this is all excluding sentimental value later on in your life and also just because you may not think you'll ever play again now but who knows in the future!). I don't know where you're getting your figures from but it seems to me like you're looking at an auction listing site or something where the accounts are marked up ridiculously and won't sell (they don't pay you these prices, they pay you like 10% of these prices then relist them)
Yeah I figured as much. It was an auction list with 0 bids across the board. So more realistically it should come out to $300 or less =P. I still don't see myself coming back to the game ever again though.
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I wouldnt sell the account if its linked to your SC2 account since it may create problems in the future for you
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Another thing to realize is that a flly upgraded account is already worth like 100 dollars or something
20 dolalrs original + 10 BC, + 30 wotlk + 40 dollars cataclysm
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I don't know if its been mentioned but playerauctions.com is where all my friends sold their wow accounts. the management directly mediates every sale, so you're super safe.
but yeah, accounts aren't worth what they use to be. I'm keeping mine for that reason, if for some reason there's a resurgence in price.
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On May 27 2011 06:38 brazenraven wrote:
I don't know if its been mentioned but playerauctions.com is where all my friends sold their wow accounts. the management directly mediates every sale, so you're super safe.
but yeah, accounts aren't worth what they use to be. I'm keeping mine for that reason, if for some reason there's a resurgence in price.
Will never happen.
Vanilla and TBC were the golden age of account selling for tons of money because the top level epic equipment was actually...hard to get....
I went through 6 accounts before I quit WoW for good like 2 years ago because my guild cleared Ulduar like 2 days after it was out. Guild fell apart and I was done. That was the last straw for me.
My six accounts were
NE Priest never sold. Blood and sweat went into this one and I actually have an odd affection for it.
Human Mage - Sold for 2400~
Human Warlock - Sold for 1700~
Orc Shaman - Sold for 800~
Undead Rogue - Sold for 3300~
Draenei Shaman - Sold for 950~
My Mage was technically my first account. I switched to priest to main right before naxx came out but the guilds I was in pretty much allowed me to fully gear out my alliance alts. My Horde characters where mainly TBC oriented and were in European time zones...it was not rare for me to go from one raid on Alliance to another raid on my Horde character right after it was done. How I didn't fail school is beyond me
The highest seller was the Rogue because of the Warglaives. The mage was full t3 and sold near the end of vanilla. The warlock was full t6/Sunwell and sold right after I killed Kiljaeden with it. The two shamans were maxed out for what you could get in Wrath but finding buyers for that was WAY harder and so their turnover was garbage.
The ease with which to get things has dropped price like a rock. My priest was worth 3 times as much in Vanilla/TBC as it was in Wrath but it had the same level of gear in comparison to game progression. There were simply more people that had the good shit.
I don't see prices ever re surging. I'd just keep accounts you have in case you ever want to come back. I've had several point of temptation to go back to my priest but have held off for the time being >.>
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Man, I had a trusted guildmate make a serious offer of $2000 for my Paladin in TBC, I sometimes wish I had taken them up on it. I was the only serious, geared raiding Retribution Paladin on the server (abusing Seal of Blood and chugging mana potions like a boss in the second best guild on the server), but I figured I wouldn't get away with it since I knew so many people and it would be pretty hard to 'lay low' as a BiS Ret Paladin in mid-TBC.
Also I made so many Warriors mad standing in Shattrath with my gear that I'll bet they would have all jumped at the opportunity to report my character if they found out, lol.
But yeah WoW accounts sell for garbage right now. Everyone's quitting because Cataclysm is just WotLK all over again.
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On May 27 2011 07:50 Hinanawi wrote:
Man, I had a trusted guildmate make a serious offer of $2000 for my Paladin in TBC, I sometimes wish I had taken them up on it. I was the only serious, geared raiding Retribution Paladin on the server (abusing Seal of Blood and chugging mana potions like a boss in the second best guild on the server), but I figured I wouldn't get away with it since I knew so many people and it would be pretty hard to 'lay low' as a BiS Ret Paladin in mid-TBC.
Also I made so many Warriors mad standing in Shattrath with my gear that I'll bet they would have all jumped at the opportunity to report my character if they found out, lol.
But yeah WoW accounts sell for garbage right now. Everyone's quitting because Cataclysm is just WotLK all over again.
hey man i disagree, wotlk was pretty good compared to cataclysm. and it definitely was the best pvp expansion.
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Great to hear! WoW was such a time sink.
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when i quit i'm pretty sure i could have sold my account for a few hundred
but then i thought to myself, why am i doing this? i don't normally sell games that i quit, wow's always going to be there if i ever get bored
so i kept it
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