No. I think more people would actually leave/quit because they don’t see enough value in the game to pay with actual money. It isn’t any skin off their noses that Blizzard makes an extra $5, it isn’t THEIR cash going to Blizzard.
That said, I 100% agree the token is bad for the game in the long run and has done a lot of permanent damage namely by allowing the explosion of the tryhard and wannabe elitist boost community.
Please don’t talk to me about real world conversations when you don’t seem to know how handle it even on the internet without being rude
before you did that, whether you were wrong or I was wrong we were having a proper debate
it’s your own fault you decided to step in to a different place which is not wrong but you decided to be rude which is wrong
I don’t see how that affects your gameplay if you’re running with a guild or using IO. If people want to be lazy, let them. They wasted their money for their gear to obsolete in a patch. lol
Come back? Wouldn’t removing it cause even more unsubs/bleeding? The exact opposite effect 
I imagine a decent % of folks continue to play WoW only “because of” the WoW token, and there’s also the issue of low-income/poverty players who really depend on being able to pay their sub with WoW tokens versus real-life money.
After the bait-n-switch of patch 9.1 with it’s tiny amount of content, I decided to let my 6-month/credit card-paid sub lapse for the new year and I am on month-to-month now. My 6-month sub expired back on January 22 and I’m coasting on WoW tokens now.
I feel this is the play “just in case” 9.2 turns out to be light on content/dry like patch 9.1 turned out to be. As a month-to-month player I can simply walk away at any time without feeling like I “have” to stick around to get my money’s worth 
You are correct.
If Blizzard was to remove the token (which will never happen lol), it might bring back a few people. Of course, a few people would quit as well.
But overall it will not make much difference one way or the other.
I never partook, but I miss the ads spelled out in corpses in front of the AH.
Tokens, I don’t see as an issue. Paying for carries on the other hand… a huge issue.
The barrier to entry for WoW Raids and PvP is too high and too time-consuming, and at the solo/casual level content is not plentiful enough to keep people entertained.
Not to mention every other game in the world is putting out content way faster with more frequent balance updates in terms of class design.
I would argue more people would leave rather than come back if they couldn’t pay for the subscription with gold.
This is just anecdotal but I’ve seen a lot more people here justifying their subscription due to it being “free” to them rather than on other forums saying that the token being a thing here is what keeps them from playing.
I’m convinced some people would outright quit. I know I played for a year using straight tokens for in-game gold. If they got rid of it, I simply wouldn’t have played for that time til I felt comfy paying a sub again.
Plenty of people buy tokens simply to have gold on hand because they hate farming gold or playing the AH. Why exactly people experience such a major gold deficit is beyond me as the game pretty much throws gold at you just for playing.
one does not follow the other.
Why would they come back? If they left 'cause the token was there and not because they didn’t like the content being released then those are some weird people.
If they removed the token, lots of people would stop playing lol
They either don’t have the $$ or don’t see the value in it but can earn th e gold for gametime so they do that to fill up their boredom since they probably still want to hold onto the fantasy and escape or don’t like anything else.
I disagree because the game lost too many people not because of the token but because it’s bad
removing the token might make a few people quit but if they make the game better and if everyone including their friends play here they will be back
of course, it’s a hilarious idea to think they will improve the game to such an extent but we can hope
There would be even fewer players than there are now.
agreed, but removing the token would most likely lead to an even cheaper game.
I don’t support tokens but I don’t think removing them will make a better game.
my hope is Microsoft really wants to make an outstanding game.
hopefully new mgmt will actually play the game…and not to sell carries with tokens.
A good number of people pay their sub with in game gold by buying that token.
Same here, I would never pay for this game now or ever again with real money. I have not paid for game time since the tokens came out & I have paid for an xpack since you could convert the tokens into Bnet balance.
One doesn’t lead to the other though. The token isn’t why the game is bad. The game is bad through a combination of bad decisions and execution for the game. The token being in our out doesn’t affect that. Just how much money they make.
yea that’s what I said people quit because the game is bad
Im saying that people will come back even if the token is removed provided their friends are playing it and if it’s improved
But you aren’t getting how one doesn’t have anything to do with the other. You say you understand the token isn’t why people quit or why the token didn’t impact quality, but you keep relating it to that.
And some won’t come back even if the game is what it was when they were playing because they left due to lifestyle changes. Some people ended up with less time to contribute to a game like this after high school or college. Because it is very time consuming.
I can agree with that but no im not relating the token to people quitting.
im saying there won’t be a huge impact if the token was removed AND if the game was improved then they will come back
removing only the token will not do anything