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by kalleboo 2145 days ago
At least company scrip was used to buy food/normal goods, albeit at a large markup. "Blizzard bucks" sound completely useless unless you're really into games
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Since you can trade WOW (and many other MMOs’) items for real world cash, I wouldn’t call Blizzard bucks useless. In fact I’ve heard people playing WoW for a living...

Basically, say Blizzard compensates you $20k in Blizzard bucks, and you auction off $20k worth of items at a reduced rate, you end up taking $20k * discount rate from Blizzard’s revenue, roughly speaking.

>Since you can trade WOW (and many other MMOs’) items for real world cash, I wouldn’t call Blizzard bucks useless. In fact I’ve heard people playing WoW for a living...

You cannot do that, ToS forbids that, and if you were caught i expect that consequences would be harsher than just a ban.

Yeah you can't do this w/o risk of getting fired. Blizz had an internal affairs division that would track this kind of stuff down.
Huh that really sucks.