allright, so. first things first: why did we even start with gold squishes?
the answer warmane staff gave us when they first introduced the gold squish, and the one they maintain until this day is "to maintain a healty economy" and to "reduce server-wide gold ammounts". this statements have been, and continue to be TRUE. however, the way on how the squishes have happened have changed.
The 1st gold squish
the first gold squish happened back in 2016 (even tough staff members announced there could be one as back as 2015 on this post:
http://forum.warmane.com/showthread....ht=gold+squish) and did 2 major things right:
first: being the 1st gold squish on the server, it caught everyone by surprise
second: it was accompanied by a proffesion rate decrease (from x7 to x3)
however, it did not come without its major drawbacks. to begin with, the community was most unpleased with this squish. since they fought tooth and nail for their "hard earned gold" and looked for ways to bypass the squish, from keeping it in guild banks, mailing it, bidding on ah items, etc etc etc. none of it worked however.
in the end these 2 things done right made a huge impact on reducing gold and helped to keep prices stable for the following year, being the most succesfull squish at completing its goals, since it was the one that sunk gold the hardest, as well as preventing prices to skyrocket back to its original prices during that same year.