with the death of the gold selling market , how do you accurately value the in game gold price of the game token . since its introduction the price has gone from 25k to 175k (as of right now on Mediev ). with every other conceivable item in game there is a market for it ,just like the game token . however if anyone ever noticed there is no way for anyone who may be putting one on the ah to under price the highest item there . can anyone if they can out an actual gold to dollar value on the game token ,or vice versa it is a virtual monopoly. take it or leave it , if that is the case , think of this . what would those who play the ah do if they implemented the same thing across the rest of the ah . you only see the item at its highest price . no more competitive nature of the ah . the price we actually pay in irl cash has not changed ,but the price of the game tokens has only gone higher and higher .as of 1152 central daylight time on sunday night September 22 2019 some tool flagged that thread and question cause they got butt hurt over it
It’s supply and demand. They go up higher when there are less on the market. Personally, I prefer the higher price. It has restocked my gold stores. Thanks to Classic they are actually worth purchasing again!
I think they should go for 200k.
the people spending IRL money are the ones the market should favor.
Oh I wish they would as well, Legion was amazing for them, I would have bought so many more back then had I known they would have dropped so much in BFA.
I wish the price would go higher. I’d just do OT one weekend and grab Brutosaur.
Yeah, that’s how an economy works.
The more people that buy one thing drive up that price because it’s in demand.
If more people would spend money buying gold, the price would go down.
You should be asking more people to open their wallets and fork over some cash.
Weird question for ya, as you see I love them tokens. But do you wish that we as the sellers could actually control the prices? That is the one thing I miss from Rift and their similar currency.
Blizzard tries to set the token prices at a market clearing price, and if you put one on the AH it’s pretty much guaranteed to sell in a day.
The price doesn’t alway increase, though. Token price briefly went above 300k gold at the end of Legion, then dropped to about 100k for most of BFA, until Classic dropped and people quit wanting Retail gold.
Has positives and negatives.
Eve has this with plex. And at some point the players shot this up to really high prices and it never came down. When I started 400mil could cover this. 400 mil isk for a month of game play.
Not that hard a task to reach this if you worked pve angles decent or if really lucky you dropped a ship with an expensive AF item drop in the loot in pvp.
One expac and speculation on a new feature (cosmetic items and such) and this market got bad. then another expac, more speculation, plex market got worse. another expac…
And the price went to crap really. While not ideal Blizzard is still keeping this somewhat reasonable. Players could make this cheaper. More than likely they’d go for more money really. 200k? they’d want that 300k.
no to see competitive pricing like everything else on the ah .more than one of the same item listed ,you can see and post at or buy at different prices .
When they were at about 100k, I did a check on gold selling sites, the reality was that they were worth less than buying it legitimately. I’d like it to sit around 200k personally.
no, because there are a lot of stupid people in this world who don’t understand the concepts of supply/demand.
they’d buy tokens, list them at 50k when all the others are selling at 150k, and dump the market for everyone.
that is done now on other items , it brings the prices down when they get out of control
Yeah that is one way to look at it, but am I not mistaken in the idea that once they are purchased they can;t be resold? I tried to give one to a guild mate earlier this year and was unable to trade it to them. Unless the undercutting folks have an endless supply of cash, I can’t see that lasting for long.
But I do see where this could happen and thank you for replying. 
Happy questing!
ok if you are a game token seller im sorry for ya . it ia personal thing with me as to being a disabled vet with ptsd and this game is really the only connection to the "human"race i can handle
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the gold making masters buy this up fast AF when it hits and resell at higher price. this also happens in eve. We call it buy order baiting. We buy at low price, see who doesn’t know how to sort prices properly and then buy this up cheap. then we flip for higher.
One of the downsides I didn’t cover above in eve. Its how you work “scams”. Player doesn’t shop wisely they get screwed and we make out good.
Why you sit in Jita (major trade hub in the game). YOu hit the markets there hard and often and look the for deals. Or the player putting stuff out really tired and they mess up their prices lol.
Like one night by pure luck some player dumped a few expensive items they were either really bad at pricing or they mistyped their price really bad. they dropped 2 zero’s off market value. I picked those bad boys up and flipped at the right price. Nice payout for me.
I suspect that a lot of people will be using their WOD and Legion gold millions to fund token purchase to play Classic. This will drive up the price for the seller.
Paying real money to repair yourself, can you imagine that in BFA. . .
That isn’t true. Even right now it is down 10K from it’s 7 day high.
Id rather the price stay higher…make those things too cheap and you get too many people using tokens not subs.
Before i get qq’d to death yes that would be a bad thing because the easier it is for people to play the game for free using ingame gold the more pressure there will be for ingame market sales of mounts and stuff as well as further increase of cost for xpacks…bfa already crossed the line i think. In short you want a good majority of player base to rely on subs so blizz gets their constant monthly income.