Titansteel Bar

They aren't trying to get you to buy gold, but stop the people on the other end of the spectrum.

Toward the end of TBC people were actually hitting the hard cap for gold on some servers. That is they had nothing else to spend money on so it just kept building up till the game couldn't add any more. It hit the limit the code allowed under how Blizzard coded gold.

Items like the Mechano-hog and the artificial cool-downs on these items are meant to slow down those who don't need to buy gold, those who are so bloody gifted at getting gold you have to wonder if they didn't accidentally roll a tall leperchaun instead of an Elf.

Dailies on the other hand were added to help those who are tempted to buy gold. Those with bad luck at earning gold.

The problem is similiar to a real life fluke incident. The Sesame Street effect.

Sesame Street was meant to reduce the "knowledge gap" between kids in poor families and those in better off families as the better off families either had the money for better education or placed more importance on education. It was believes Sesame Street would give the poor children a boost to be closer to the better off children with free television education before going to school.

The problem is the gap began to widen after Sesame Street began airing. Why? The kids in the better off families were also watching Sesame Street. It increased the knowledge of both groups, but the gap widened because the better off kids were getting more out of it. It indirectly did the exact opposite of what was intended.

Dailies are also being done by those blessed with gold. So Blizzard needs more expensive gold sinks to slow them down so they can't buy out the entire AH for laughs. However, they add more dailies to help out everyone else out. Which increases the money of those Blessed-with-gold, who need more impediments....

So it isn't Blizzard is trying to force people to buy gold. It is the exact opposite. They are trying to control inflation of the rich, but induce inflation for the poor. Mechano-hog is a luxury item designed around wealth redistribution.

Titansteel is the strongest forgable material in all of Azeroth...
But will it blend?

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