WoW - Mail system update.
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007 - 9:24am
Just thought I'd post this up here for those that don't read the community boards. Not all of the changes put into the game yesterday were in the patch notes. Great news for all of us who only use a single account. No more wait times no matter what you're sending. 
But now there's a standard 60 minute wait even when sending money to another account. I guess the hour wait time will help them catch gold sellers/buyers, since I really don't see how it would slow them down any other way.
Eyonix wrote:
As part of our continued efforts to protect the game's economy and ultimately the game-play experience of each individual player, we've made a small change to how an aspect of our mail system works. Just like in-game mail transactions containing items, mail sent with gold, silver, and copper coins attached will in most cases now take one hour to reach the recipient. This change will help us to better ensure the legitimacy of such transactions and further prevent the unlawful influx of currency into each realm's economy. Keep in mind that this delay will only affect the following mail transactions containing coins:Regular mail with coins attached.
CoD payments received via the mail system.Note: This will NOT affect mail sent from one character to another when under the same account.
Eyonix wrote:
Quote:It seems that items and such between characters on the same account are instant as well.
Was this intended?
This is working as intended, and unfortunately didn't make the patch notes. Gold and items sent to a character on the same account will now arrive immediately.
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Awesome! Nice to see the delay go away now.
This is a welcome improvement.
Jolly Bill wrote:
Is this in Live?? I can't believe we can finally send items instantly between characters :0
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That's awesome. No more "Anyone in Shat? I need to transfer some mats over to my main." Only to find that your willing courier only has 2 bag slots available :/
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Yeah, I think this is pretty cool. Sending a new alt some better bags just got a whole lot easier.
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Oh, Blizzard, you ole kidder.
It'd take a lot less than an hour for a gold harvester to travel to a player's location and give him gold via trade window.
yes, but that's a very BIG inconvienience if you have a lot of people you need to give money to.
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Elysium wrote:
Just make the player travel to gold harvester then.
That's still a huge inconvenience. Let's say your gold farmer usually sits by a mailbox in west BFE, your transfer account toon sits in Orgrimmar. Now you have to either travel all the way to and from west BFE to get money to your bank & transfer character, or wait the hour to send the money and items. Either way, you're still looking at fairly reduced efficiency in transferring funds around, with a total of at least two hours to get gold from the farmer toon to the buyer. It could be less if you travel and work around your hearthstone, but even so, that's still a one hour cool down.
Coldstream wrote:
What's to stop the seller from having an alt by a mailbox in every major city? He can still send gold to his alts instantly, then the alt hand-delivers the gold to the buyer.
Regardless, when I went to look up some "WoW Gold for sale" sites (out of curiosity), all of them said the gold is delivered within a couple days of confirmation of payment...sometimes within 24 hours. How does a 2-hour delay really affect them?
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It just gives Blizzard the opportunity to review large movements of gold.
Ultimately, I wouldn't be surprised if they start hard delivering it.
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You don't need alts - the gold seller can just buy a port to any capital city. I do it all the time (buying ports, that is). I would imagine that a person willing to buy gold has no problem with meeting in a capital city.
Doing it in person makes it seem a bit more like a drug deal, don't it?
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- Legion, taking "keeping it in the family" to a whole new level.
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You don't seem to understand. The purpose of the hour-delay is to prevent the transfer altogether.
So...
Mailbox --> no money delivery at all
Meeting --> money delivery, although with a little inconvenience
All that is really needed, as Fedaykin pointed out below, is to port to a major city. The farmer can then hearthstone back. Given the hearthstone cooldown, the farmers will probably wisen up and add more people whose job will mostly lie in just deliveries. That, and mages - for ports.
It gives new meaning to the term "mule" characters.
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- Legion, taking "keeping it in the family" to a whole new level.
Xbox Live: Fedaykin98
I understand perfectly well what the reasoning is. The purpose in adding this is to allow blizzard to put a little more oversight on transfers. When a single character is consistently sending and receiving large amounts of money, they can look at where it's coming from. The intent is NOT to completely prevent the transfer from taking place. I myself have legitimately sent large amounts of money to friends when I was too lazy to go find them and trade it off.
It's not the delay on the character transferring money. The delay becomes an issue when the money is being moved from the characters who actually farm to the characters that distribute it out. That transfer is what blizzard is trying to catch, since the farmer characters are always on separate accounts from the ones that move the money to the buyers.
Coldstream wrote:
Thanks Anime. I missed that angle of it.
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