Whereas I by no means relish in ‘um, truly’-ing anyone, I’m sadly a videogame journalist and do should look into these items: “simply earlier than the discharge of the unique Burning Campaign” is a little bit of a misnomer (and a change from the unique announcement, which mentioned “weeks”).
Vanilla WoW added the XP-to-gold conversion in Patch 1.10.0, confirmed each right here on a wiki and, god bless, the Octopus Overlords discussion board, which nonetheless miraculously has a information put up from 20 years in the past across the time of the patches’ launch that mentions the “Quest Expertise to Gold Conversion at Stage 60.” I used to be additionally in a position to dig up these Shacknews and Macnews articles which each additionally point out it. The wiki additionally has a hyperlink to this archived web page that includes the replace.
Loads of proof on the contrary, which is essential as a result of I am about to be an enormous pedant.
Stated patch arrived March 28, 2006, whereas The Burning Campaign was launched on January 16, 2007. That is 9 months—just some months shy of a full calendar yr. That is not arguably “simply earlier than” Burning Campaign, and solely technically “weeks” earlier than. It was 42 weeks earlier than TBC.
However, in equity, we’re speaking a few 20-year outdated timeline and I do not precisely blame a developer for having a barely murky recollection. As for the precise change itself, the reasoning feels sound. I am undecided many individuals have been saving high-level quests for an enormous bump in gold, however given WoW participant’s propensity for attempting to optimise the whole lot, I would not put it previous anybody.
And, extra to the purpose, Endlessly has a significant drawback to maintain a lid on by way of its financial system—this is not a sport with a WoW Token, which was largely carried out to assist fight gold farming by price-capping a gold shopping for different, so quite a lot of these adjustments have been made to assist gradual and handle inflation. I believe the trade-off of including extra money to higher-level quests is an inexpensive one.
