It did the same thing in Shadowlands.
The token’s gold price ALWAYS drops near the start of an expansion. ALWAYS. Then it goes up again as the expansion goes along, then drops again at the start of the next expansion.
It’s been doing this for years.
I’m curious how the price got so high.
This year, I’m sure I saw the price was hover around 150,000, because I sold some gold for some WoW tokens back then.
And even then, I never seen a 300,000+ ATH before.
Do you guys think this is really a natural inflation of the US WoW token price?
Because I feel like Blizzard may have changed a multiplier in the backend for the wow token price calculation for US lol
The token hasn’t changed the “game integrity” at all. Carries have been part of the game since the server hamsters started running. Gold buying/selling was so rampant in Vanilla sites were using corpses in game to advertise. Accounts were being hacked all the time (although when mine was I got all my stuff back + the hackers 27 truesteel bars, twice the gold I had before). The token made it possible to keep playing since I passively generate enough gold to play for free. As a filthy casual I sure as (sexual congress) wouldn’t pay actual money to be treated as a third-class the way Daddy Blizz has been lately. If the token went away my bet is WAY more people would leave than would come back. 
Lord I remember those days…be sitting in SW near the trade area front of SW and all sudden a bunch of bodies would fall out of the sky and land next too you and spell out some gold sellers site…it was funny to be there when it actually happened and see the results right off…hahaha
- DF has become a raid log/unsub expac due to the extreme alt and casual unfriendliness. People aren’t playing so they don’t need to spend gold.
- Lack of gold sinks.
- Blizzbucks being useful in D4, D Immortal, Hearthstone, etc.
As far as i know WoW is the only game that generates a currency you can spend on other games. Since nobody needs to spend WoW gold in game, Blizzbucks are worth more of it.
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Very informative. Ty! Wish I could give you multiple Likes.
Wait, what? DF is one of the most alt friendly expansions so far
They tried to turn more casual solo stuff into another FOMO/timegate-as-progress rent seeking shtick. As if raid lockouts and weekly vault and Catalyst Drip Feed weren’t covering base on that already. In particular Blizzard moved SL Covenant Meaningful Choice onto Dragonflight Professions. Hidden weekly caps on how far you can progress it, so you have to wait out your sub and login weekly for that.
Game turns meaningless when it’s rent seeking FOMO/timegate as progress larping as a grind, then blizzard wonders why it’s easy for so many to unsub and never come back.
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Professions are beyond not alt friendly.
Gearing beyond the base catch-up level is not anymore alt friendly than previous.
Actual rep rewards are not alt friendly.
There is only one “campaign story” and it’s HORRIBLE to repeat.
My alts are no better off than previously, except for professions which are way worse.
More FOMO timegate as progress to troll people into logging in weekly to artifically inflate numbers, even if it makes people hate blizzard and remove trust over it. It’s a design change for MAU metrics, or in real non-PR speak wording, sunk cost fallacy farming customers.