The WoW token has been great. It’s made it so much easier to sell boosts to people who otherwise might not have been able to afford it! And it’s made me handsomely wealthy.
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Yes and all that grind is worthless because you can buy gold IRL bud. Every second of every grind is worthless because the token invalidates 95% of it.
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Do the quick and easy world quests that reward gold.
Do the quick and easy weekly quests that reward gold.
Minimize (or, ideally, completely cut out) your spending at the AH.
The gold piles up.
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Is this an anti “been in the game since WOD” WoW Token post?
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the token is the only thing keeping me playing (ive not paid a real money sub in yrs) - when i cant earn enough in game while playing to buy a token i’ll be gone -as i suspect alot of other will who do the same thing.
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It’s interesting how GDKPs in classic made I would guess a lot more people rich than were rich at the same point in retail’s history. We have supposedly a bunch of millionaires in classic who have more gold than a decent number of people in retail I’d imagine and their token price is only 8k (though it only works as game time and not bnet balance which is probably a significant factor in holding the price down).
I didn’t become a WoW millionaire until we could print gold in WoD garrisons and I played from day 1 of vanilla.
Dude, what Mickey D’s you working at that pays that? Hell, I’ll apply.
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It’ll never go away unfortunately. but wow is by definition a pay to win game because of it.
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I’d rather get gold in game than buy it. Just sayin’.
Everyone has a choice.
All of them? They’re offering benefits and everything now, too. Because no one wants to work.
Looking at the current slate of world quests which offer gold, I totaled them up to roughly 6500. Do all of those on a whole bunch of alts, every time they pop up, and that’s a lot of gold for relatively little effort and not a -whole- lot of time. But also… how far does that gold -go- in today’s WoW economy?
The sad thing is that depending on the server, profession, and time of week/phase of the expansion, it’s difficult to make money via crafting professions and hard to compete with the bots when it comes to gathering professions and time spent collecting those mats.
I’m not hurting for gold, but I also haven’t exactly come out terribly ahead through Dragonflight, in part because I’m on a quiet server, my main is an alchemist, and I don’t dedicate myself to the time needed to really corner the AH.
(Transmogs, pets, and recipes can be high ticket items but also move extremely slowly on the AH…)
It’s much easier to buy a token ($20 is roughly an hour’s work in the real world for me) which nets me 270k-300k rather than grind it out in game. But I mainly do that on servers I don’t play on, to buy cosmetics for cheaper than my home realm. It’s a nice convenience.
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And that’s not even counting the dragon races.
What content is your lack of gold preventing you from doing?
Are you just mad for the sake of being mad?
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All the spammers on trade services advertising carries would say differently.
Plus BOEs and patterns still sell for a lot.
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Actually for a good chunk of this expansion, they were sitting at 300k. It’s gone down over the last month or two.
That aside, crafting and professions can make quite a bit of money with little time investment. Same with the AH in general honestly. You don’t even need fancy addons.
Also as far as the comparisons of getting a job vs farming gold, strictly comparing the two as far as output, yeah the job will win. However I don’t think many people would argue that working fast food is more fun than playing WoW, even if you’re doing world quests or crafting items or something. You are ignoring many other factors.
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You do not seem to understand people enjoy the grind as it is a game, people have fun grinding. They play it for enjoyment.
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Blizzard set the initial price, it then goes up or down based on how fast it’s selling. If a bunch are selling, it will slowly increase in price. If very few are selling, it will slowly decrease in price.
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This. I don’t understand how anyone can be flat broke. Everything gives gold. If you run out then it means you’re either dying every 5 minutes, or spending all of your sub time in tradechat.
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The weekly world event quest gives over 2k gold per character. There are multiple world quests that give 500+ gold. Earning gold doesn’t mean just grinding mobs.
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People will always buy gold, this is just a safer way to do it
So this means nobody should respond, give comments, opinions, or ask for changes ever? I’ll never understand the idea that players should never ask for changes.
I actually agree with the OP on this one.
Blizz chipped away at gold making ability over the years. Used to be selling crafted gear to vendors would net you significant amount of gold, or running through raids/dungeons. They intentionally nerfed these avenues while increasing prices over time.
I have also stopped gold farming for this reason. I’m much better off working for an hour and buying two tokens.
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