Guess I am a gold farmer then and I guess you are unable to afford my prices, better luck next time.
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If you make buying tokens from the store unattractive to buyers, there will be less tokens available on the AH driving the price even higher.
Far as i recall that was the idea pretty muchâŚa valid way to trade actual money for ingame currency making gold farmers obsoleteâŚsadly gold farmers are still around.
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You should see how much they go for in other countries. Some of the prices hit 300k+
yes Blizzard just cut the middle man out and they are in game now as subs
Some things will never change, gold sellers will never completely disappear.
lol what? When?
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You never heard of inflation? The more people that want to play only for the cost of gold the more the price will continue to go up.
Short of it:
Tokens costing over 100k gold = solid market for blizz selling them for 20 bucks, as well as only a small portion of the overall community giving up monthly subs to use tokens on a reg basis.
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I wish they would go back down to 20k there isnt excessive ways to make gold in BFA and basically 175k tokens are turning into pay to win cuz thats whats the rate for carries are. It should be harder to get stuff in game with real money
there are many world quests that reward gold, gear gets handed out like candy and we still have the mission table. Very few things end game require large amounts of gold to purchase and the ones that do are one time buys like recipes for proffesions. If you have flying and a toon that has gathering proffs you can make a ton of gold a day selling on the ah. It just requires a bit of effort, thus establishing the concept, you work hard enough you can play for free but no hand outs for game time.
You want to play for free then go farm that gold. Players paying real money for the tokens should get their moneyâs worth.
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So the price of carries would end up dropping. People selling carries arenât dumb, they know what tokens sell for and how much the market will bear. If the cost of tokens cratered, the price of carries would go down too.
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I am not liking the tokens, personally. The prices of everything has blown up with the insane inflation caused by them. That is why whenever I saw gold sellers spamming or whispering me I have always reported them. I feel the tokens were a bad idea.
They didnât fix the gold seller problem, just made things worse. Before when it was illegal, it was a slower inflation because gold sellers had to risk being reported, but since Blizzard made it basically legal, the economy seems broken.
I never said anything before, even though I was a little worried about it when they first announced the Tokens.
They need to remove the tokens completely. I wish they would just stop selling them in the Blizz store. The pay-to-win element was the reason I left another game, and the broken economy is one of the reasons I have not felt like playing retail.
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It was pushing 250k near the end of Legion. It dropped rapidly to about 110k a few months into BfA. Itâs all about supply and demand, blizzard does not control the price. If there are lots of tokens on the AH and not many are buying, the price gets lower⌠if there are very few on the AH and lots of people are buying, it gets higher. I have seen times where there were no tokens on the AH at all.
Right now itâs fairly high because people were cashing out their âretailâ gold in mass so they can vacation to classic for months and not worry about it at all.
There is a website that specifically tracks the price fluctuation⌠I canât post links though⌠a simple google of âwow token price historyâ will get you there.
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Not completely, but they are a way bigger problem in Classic, which doesnât have tokens, than in Retail, which does.
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How the hell can a token be overpriced? Itâs play money for real money. The price for a token should be at least a million or more. If Blizz would drop the price controls on it and let it freely trade on the AH, it would skyrocket higher.
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EDIT: nvm, they reached the point I was gonna make later in the post
Blizzard gets a net 5$ for every token buy/sell transaction, so the token price does not matter to them. However they have introduced things that can be purchased with battle.net balance, so players sitting on piles of gold then buy more token with their gold, hence driving up token prices. Like, the release of Classic.