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NEW PINNED COMMENT (10 HOURS AFTER UPLOADING VIDEO)
Some people are super eager to defend these boosts by questioning the RMT gold value, cloth profit margin, etc.
Ok, I'll explain this a bit further.
In the video I actually rounded down the 6 months of gold from cloth sales (I rounded months to 28 days rather than 30 on average) so to be more precise, I'll bump that back up. 6 months = 150$ in WoW sub = 7,200g (video states this as 6,720g)
But wait.
You can also VPN to Argentina and purchase an Argentinian WoW sub for $3.00 per month. So now, rather than paying $90.00 for 6 months of WoW, you're paying $18.00. (This might sound insane to some of you, but this is a very common thing to do among min/max players or players that are operating multiple accounts - we had a guy in our guild operating 5 Argentinian accounts specifically for summoning alts.)
But wait.
Your Classic WoW subscription is shared with your retail subscription, and REALLY minmax players can do 30 minutes of AH flipping per month to make their WoW sub F R E E so none of this matters.
But wait.
I've also taken a look at some European servers and you can actually get gold on some lesser populated EU servers for ~$25.00 USD or so, as opposed to the ~$35.00+ it seems to bottom out at on NA servers. I'm not sure why gold is cheaper in EU, who cares.
Regardless, even if you're paying $150 per 6 months for a WoW sub and not doing any of the Argentinian / retail WoW subscription memery, gold still has to drop to $21.00 USD per 1,000g in order for the magic cloth money method to stop being profitable, in terms of real world $$.
I'll also add a site note - gold RMT price is going to go up in TBC, at least the first 3 months. If you think otherwise, you've probably never played TBC. There's A TON OF EXPENSIVE SHIT that every player is going to want to buy to get their pre-bis. + 6,000g worth of flying mounts. And, I hate to say it, but prime gold buying demographic are players new to TBC that have just purchased a 58 boost and have zero gold to their name (there will be LOTS of these people).
Anyway, 58 boosts are bad. #STOPTHEBOOST
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