Token prices are rising.
Demand has fallen=exiting population.
The initial hype is over for this expansion.
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I don’t think you passed your economics class.
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If the token price is rising doesn’t that mean there is more demand? If there wasn’t much demand the token price would drop.
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hang on. someone sat on my tinfoil hat, i have to make another. give me a few mins and i’ll be ready for my weekly dose of “is WoW dying for real?”
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That’s too ambitious. Some at least list some points. OP doesn’t even know how math works.
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rising “token price” (gold value) means that the price of gold is dropping. meaning that there’s less people buying gold than there are people selling their gold. It implies that the raid logging working people are leaving.
The economics of the wow token is weird.
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Token pricing rising means less people feel obligated to buy gold. That’s pretty much it. We are entering a phase of the patch where prof slows down and people aren’t constantly enchanting and gemming.
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You need some remedial lessons on
before you’re ready to write for Bloomberg.
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I blame the mission table. /s
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No /s. I actually miss it.
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I don’t know where you get rising token prices equals people exiting the game.
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There is more demand because of how crafting orders work.
Blizzard calculated.
The price goes up if there is more demand for the product and goes down when the market is over saturated. So in this case, there is a greater demand for tokens then there are tokens being sold.
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Also passive gold recently got turbo buffed. World quests can go for upwards of like 700g for flying through some flags on a mountainside.
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I don’t either, but I’m going to try.
A rising price can mean:
- Hot demand,
- Reduced supply, or
- Both.
I think he’s implying that fewer Token buyers plunking down $20 per indicates players leaving.
I’m not sure the one follows as a direct consequence of the other. Economics is weird and complicated.
You all realize that Blizzard can set the token price at whatever they want right?
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They usually rise some what when Blizzard is doing a sale. People buy tokens and convert them to their battle.net account to buy things from the store.
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I think we can all agree the general reasoning for the price of something going up is demand for it, not lack of demand.
The cost of gold on the other hand could mean a variety of things.
If the gold market is oversaturated and people don’t feel the need to buy more gold, then the cost to buy gold goes down.
How that impacts the token is another matter.
Yes, but he could write for Faux Newz right now…
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clearly someone doesn’t know how the token works.