The price of tokens are bottoming out on my sever at 255k (not the lowest I’ve seen them, but pretty low). Does this indicate a lack of interest in S2? I would think increased subs would mean higher priced tokens=greater demand.
Or is the dip in token price always seasonal? I’ve only really been paying attention since DF.
Generally the lower it goes, the more people are buying, meaning the more that people are playing. It rises significantly when people stop buying them for consumables etc.
Ok I thought it was the opposite. The lowest I saw tokens in the AH was the end of DF at 175k. The highest I saw them was the beginning of War within at 333k.
Also the terminology is a bit wonky. The person who bought the token for $20 is the seller, and I’m the buyer with gold. We both “bought” tokens, so I guess it’s confusing to me sometimes.
People have caught on
I wouldn’t waste 255k on a token and I wouldn’t waste $20 on gold
I just pretend the tokens don’t exist lol
If I can’t afford stuff in game, I do without. It’s why I don’t do crafted gear etc I aint paying real money for gold to get some pixels I will replace next season
255k is still expensive tbh
Needs to be down around the ~150k gold mark to reliably farm them with current raw gold sources (scarce). Shadowlands was super chill for farming them, the token mostly seemed to stay between 110k-170k, which was fairly easy to farm with a roster of alts
When more people are paying real money for gold than those buying, the price goes down.
When more people are paying gold for tokens than those that are selling, the price goes up.
So when the gold price of tokens goes down, that means more people are spending real money for gold which kind of tracks because of how much gold RWF goes through.
People buying enchants and consumables I guess
Lmao broke
I just wonder what happens if someone buys a $20 token, puts it on the AH, and it doesnt sell. Does Blizz give them their money back? Lol
Probably not. I imagine they would shadow fill the order with 250k or so, so the real money buyer doesn’t go away.
When you post a token it stays in the AH until it sells. They always sell. And they sell for the price they were worth the moment you posted them.
when we had that brouto mount last year the lowest was fround 150k gold and shot up due to players buying it to get the mount. and sold out of the tokens fast on the ah
If tokens are 255,000 on your realm they are 255,000 on all the US realms…
thats not the only reason it can lower though lol. if there are more sellers then buyers obviously it will go down to incentivize more buyers to buy.
meaning there is not enough players playing to even want to buy the tokens people keep trying to sell
It’s complicated because more players generally means both more supply and more demand for tokens.
TBH i dont even look at buying tokens with gold unless its under 200k, i dont even look at selling them unless then are over 300k.
Best thingto do is wait until they are like 180k ish, buy 4 of them, exchange for Blizzard store credit, then wait until they are up to like 300k, buy 3 and sell them, easy 180k profit.
If they ever drop lower then that, wew lads stock up and sit on them.
Nah it just means people are buying gold for new season lol
No, they were below 200k at the start of the expansion because more people jump in and purchase them to sell.
They spiked because of the brutosaur mount. Now that the mount is gone, the reason for the spike is gone, and prices are dropping back down.
That seems pretty normal to me.
Only if you assume that everyone playing is buying tokens for gametime…and not buying them with real money for in-game gold.
With how much effort it takes to make a reasonable amount of gold for your time nowadays, the later is the more likely case. For most players, even the low 260K gold is still more than they would make in a few months.
Its guaranteed to sell. If a player doesnt buy it, blizzard does.
I don’t think this is even close to true.
No. It goes down when there are more sellers than buyers. It goes up if there are more buyers than sellers.
It doesn’t matter how many people are buying and selling. Only the ratio.
Though Blizz has likely added some market control in there to prevent the price from going too low so people will continue to spend real money on them.