From the beginning of WoW Classic, Blizzard did everything to stand by the promise of #nochanges. Unfortunately, this rule has now been broken many times. Now, Blizzard has suddenly added WoW Tokens to WoW Classic without warning, leaving many in the player base frustrated.
For many years, gold farming communities, cheaters, and bots plagued World of Warcraft. As much as Blizzard tried to fight and ban them, they wouldn’t go away for the longest time.
Finally, Blizzard came up with the idea of the WoW Token. Introduced in 2015 during Warlords of Draenor, the game’s fifth expansion, WoW Tokens allow players to spend real money on an official digital currency they could use to purchase goods on Battle.net, the in-game WoW store, or sell on the Auction House for hundreds of thousands of gold.
But WoW Classic was meant to take players back through time to an earlier stage in the MMORPG’s lifespan, when the game would not hold your hand to get the greatest rewards, including gold.
On Reddit, the WoW Classic community moderators have now suspended the long-standing rule that stopped players from discussing alternatives to Blizzard’s official legacy servers. Now, players are being let loose to talk about private servers and ways to cheat to speed up the progression of the game.
Blizzard has since responded to the drama and controversy in a forum post, stating that they did not arrive at a decision lightly. Like the WoW Token in the traditional, current, modern version of the game, often called Retail, introducing the currency to Classic is meant for the same purpose of fighting illegal gold farmers and bots.