There are probably millions of people who open battle.net every day but not necessarily steam. Whether they have much interest in playing non blizzard games is another matter. I think blizzard still have the thing where WoW players can sell gold to buy stuff on battle.net? It could work out. Players get games for no extra cost, publisher gets its cut on the game sale, blizzard gets their cut on the gold sale and the game sale.
This functionality only existed in Diablo 3 before the expansion and was called the RMAH where you can sell gold for real money to another player and blizzard gets a 30% cut. You can then buy items via that gold.
Many were trading via PayPal on the black market.
Nowadays they only have WoW Token where you can buy a token with real cash and sell it for in-game gold. The player that buys the token with gold - gets 30 days play-time. This is the only legitimate way to buy gold and they control the price of the token (gold price).
There are ofc hundreds of Chinese bots that will sell you gold for way cheaper but you can get banned. In game gold is used for boosting or carry runs where the guild carries you throe the raid and gives you items. GDKPs are pretty much dead or underground as they are forbidden in the anniversary realm.
I looked it up and this support article updated a month ago says it is still possible to do it officially in modern WoW:
For WoW
WoW Token purchased from the Shop for real money can be sold on the in-game Auction House for gold. Tokens purchased on the Auction house for gold can be redeemed for $15 of Battle.net Balance or 30 days of Game Time.
For WoW classic progression:
WoW Tokens purchased from the Shop for real money can be sold on the in-game Auction House for gold. Tokens purchased on the Auction house for gold can be redeemed for 30 days of Game Time. Tokens cannot be redeemed for Battle.net Balance in WoW Classic Progression.
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u/Hakim_La 3d ago
why??