The whole making everyone recraft all their items while at the same time auto adjusting pvp ilv to the new cap.
It really is just a gold sink to push tokens for pve players isn’t it? Have we reached the point where the wow token should be reexamined to see if its a detrimental part of the game or should we perhaps move to an entirely new currency and move gold to a cosmetic only currency while the player trades in… I don’t know fae coins?
Always has been day one.
No one wants to admit WoW has been drifting towards pay to win.
All these currencies are a mess and the worst is that as a new player some of the stuff I have in my inventory I didn’t even know it was currency to something…
I think they are so dumb to the point of ignoring the gold as the main currency… If all the stuff in game was payed by gold they would make millions with tokens… all this messy currencies are unnecessary just calculate the stuff in gold and standardize the currency for goddess Sylvannas sake…
Blizz doesn’t sell gold
Out of all things to be considered a gold sink, recrafting a handful of items is not what I had in mind.
But we must consider the source of this thread.
Its tricky. Technically speaking Blizzard does not sell the gold yet. They sell a token, which can be sold for gold on the AH. The players already need to have the gold. So essentially it is simply a gold transfer from one character to another. Blizzard is not injecting more gold into the game with gold sales.
This system still has the direct conflict with gold farm bots. Because, based on how things work, it is very likely that somewhere along the chain in this process, someone bought gold for real money from a third party. The other issue is that over a long time there have been a few gold sinks to get gold out of the economy, but gold is injected into the economy faster than it is being removed.
Blizzard is attempting to draw down the amount of gold in the economy. Increasing Transmog costs ect. I think they are going about it the wrong way. Increasing Transmog costs and other similar costs has very common problem which tax brackets do in real life. When you have something with the same cost for everyone, groceries, gas, transmog, vendor reagents, increasing the cost of those items, will negatively effect everyone. But, those people with less capital will feel the impact much more.
If you have millions of gold, an increase in transmog costs will not effect you at all. But, if say you are a casual with 100k or 200k total, the 1k full tmog cost will hurt a lot more.
I digress. The WoW token does not inject more gold into the economy. There are just not enough ways to remove gold from the game, while gold farmers keep injecting more and more gold back into it. Creating the cycle of people buying gold from gold farmers, to buy things and services in game.
Technically no, but they do profit from the buying of gold, selling of gold, and selling of player on player services. It would be silly to think that these facts do not influence their decision making.
If it is, it’s not doing a very good job of it, since I’ve never needed to buy tokens.
Do 2 world quest, buy all mats required to reforge, done
Dang, blizz making us buy tokens
I have all the gold i could ever need, but that doesn’t stop me from being able to see the situation for what it is.
OP making up another story for clickbait engagement?
Yea I see that as well
It’s 2025 and people still think that tokens actually spawn gold out of thin air.
A way for people with busy lives to be able to grab some gold and not have to devote time to farming gold or doing quests for the few hours or so they get to play?
Blizzard is literally printing money with tokens.
Well now that we are going to have player housing they can just sell us an actual Gold Sink for 500k gold.
They actually should, I’m sure some players would find it amusing and get the joke if it were one of the sinks sold by the sink vendor NPC over in the sink district.
Edit: I googled gold-plated sinks and there is one for $3,895. Now THATS a gold sink.
Why not?
You effectively ensure everyone who has run a 7 or higher needs to buy material and engage in trade. It seems a massive moment of resources even from players who don’t usually bother with consumables.
Can a wow that sells gold function properly with gold sinks?
Blizzard is not selling gold. The way the subscription system works is:
With tokens there is a middle man but they are still not selling gold
I hate to be blunt… but does anyone, and I do mean anyone care about the minuscule difference beyond people who want to scream about a technicality that I am convinced even they dont find convincing?