Projected price of WoW token?

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Hi all:

Thanks in advance for any responses.

Is there anyone out there, who is studying the price of the WoW token, and has made projections, about what it is going to do, based on the lack of gold income this expansion?

(I do know that, if you work at it, you can definitely make gold in the game, but since WoD, you did not necessarily need to “work” for the gold, aka Mission Tables, Garrisons, and whatnot)

So, given that the game has removed passive gold income (this is fine, I am not complaining, or judging), I am wondering, is someone working out the supply and demand and the math of this, and projecting, the floor of the WoW token in the short-medium term?

Because, when it came out in (I think) 2015, I want to say it was either 10k or 20k, or something like that. I’m sorry, I don’t remember what I had for dinner yesterday, much less, the price of the WoW token, 8 years ago.

Anyone?

Bueller?

Current WoW token price is ~140k, which is fine, but if I knew, for example, it would be ~100k or less in a month or whatever, I’d just wait to buy additional months.

My subscription runs out in early 2024 I think, and I thought WoW’d be free-to-play by now for sure, but it’s not, yet.

We used to have guys on the forums who could definitely answer something like this, but I think we may not, any longer. (also OK, and just checking…)

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I wouldn’t expect it to go below 100k since people will stop buying RL tokens. Which will result in higher gold price.

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OK thank you.

A decline from 140k to 100k is approximately a 30% decline, which is a pretty big amount.

Let’s see what happens I guess, and I’m wondering if anyone else has any info.

(I’m trying to get some of the real math or econ guys to pop in here, with data or projections.)

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Let me check my crystal ball…it saying please insert a quarter to continue

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It’s important to remember that first year of 20k prices was distorted by the fact that there was a cap on the number of tokens you could sell for gold, so the top 1-10% of people with huge gold reserves were very limited in how much of it they could cash in.

Based on the last two expansions, this is normally the point of the expansion cycle when the price bottoms out. My crystal-ball reading is fuzzy at best, but I’ll be a little surprised if the price continues falling.

Seems to me like the mission table wasn’t really the cause of all inflation after all.

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I remember there also being a limit on how many I could buy at one time.
(I think I’m talking about the opposite situation of what you are saying, right?)

60 maybe?

I’m sure someone with a better memory could chime in.

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It was 240k at the start of dragonflight. So alreaud 100k drop in a few month’s

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The gold price goes down at the start of every expansion.

I can explain why, if you want.