In the last 8 hours, tokens have tanked over 50k (30%) why?

[Brewa-hyjal]

Gonna copy-paste the stuff I always post when this comes up. Hope this helps people.

First, some groundwork:

• Some people buy tokens with dollars, to get gold. Others buy tokens in-game with gold, to get game time.
• If there are more people buying tokens with dollars (to get gold) than there are people buying tokens off the AH with gold, the gold price goes DOWN.
• If there are more people buying tokens off the AH with gold than there are people buying tokens with dollars, the gold price goes UP.

And, as I’ve posted many times before:

@Brewa-hyjal

At the start of every expansion, the gold price goes DOWN. Because a lot of returning people with a lot of dollars come back to the game, and realize “Oh, I quit the game after a month last expansion, I missed out on a bunch of cool transmogs / mounts / pets / toys / gear because I didn’t play for 2 years”. So they buy tokens with dollars and spend the gold they get on all the things they missed.