I have noticed how low token prices consistently are. The last time I bought a few they were worth 250k per token. I can’t understand what is happening exactly. When I got them at that price was probably around April towards the end of Legion. People have told me that fewer people were playing then, which meant the tokens were worth more. Yet, constantly here on the forums, folks say that WoW is dying, but the freaking token price hovers around the 100k mark all the time, so what gives? Any ideas?
Supply and Demand.
There isn’t really anything to buy that would drive a big rise in purchases of a WoW Token so it’s been staying steady at it’s current price point.
Maybe this Tuesday expect a small bump. Maybe.
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Ok, so the amount they are worth actually increases as people buy them? So what you mean is that it’s low because almost no one is purchasing gold?
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Basically. It’s usually a result when they release something that garners a lot of interest but when people are really dialing down their purchases of said Token, the price barely moves.
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OH! Ok, that is exactly the opposite as I would expect. Ok, I figured they were worth more the less people bought gold (promoting people to buy gold) and the more folks did, the lower the amount of worth they had. Thanks for clearing that up!
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I still buy a token every 2 weeks. Gold sources have changed, it’s a little slower and more disinterested in leveling alts to max with this expansion.
Well, sir, feel free to buy more! Apparently, if I can get a few thousand people to do what you do, then the tokens will be worth much more gold!
Gold is much harder to come by in BfA. We don’t have table missions offering us 4k per alt, per week, just for logging in and clicking two buttons. There are far fewer ways of making easy gold on such a minimal time investment.
In Legion you could craft legendaries and sell them for anywhere from 80-110k each, once a week, after running just one or two mythic zero dungeons and an lfr. Multiply that by ten or twelve alts, and you see what I am getting at.
There are no such tactics in BfA. If you want a 5k table mission, you need to cap on IEs, and even then you only have a one in four or five chance of the mission being for gold instead of AP or Residuum or a (for some reason, cheap) transmog piece.
I’m not aware of any crafted gear that could bring in 75k+ per week, per toon, on only two hours of gaming, either.
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Yeah, but based on what Spotti said, since gold is harder to come by in BfA, then that means, the amount of gold tokens are worth should actually skyrocket as people buy more gold. So this is all very confusing.
In other words, whatever a token was worth in WoD and Legion, it hsould be worth much more now, right?
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No it correlates with how many people buy a wow token that the token’s price goes up. If less purchases are made, the value dwindles.
With Gold being hard to come by, people really aren’t tempted in buying lots of tokens (adding value to the token as a result) which doesn’t happen 'cause they don’t purchase mass quantities of the token..
That all seems so counter intuitive to me! lol Why not buy gold when you don’t have as much gold?
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People would rather spend their 25$ some place else, they don’t have nothing that interests them, so it’s why I said there really isn’t anything tempting players to buy Gold.
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Oh, see, that also seemed different to me with the prices of the mounts and such these days. Like the frogs or longboi. It just seems like more people would buy gold to buy the things in the game and to supplement the amount of gold lost from the tables. This seems so strange to me, but, ok, I’ll keep watching the market every day and pounce when I see it shoot up to 250k or more!
There’s nothing to spend your gold on except a grossly overpriced Flintstones mount.
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Announcing Diablo Immortal really hurt them too instead of another Diablo 3 Expansion or Diablo 4. Preemptive Blizzard Balance drives token sales when they know there’s something they can purchase in the future that has potential.
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Gold generation is slower in BfA right now, and combine that with some pretty big gold sinks out there (e.g. 5M dino mount with auctioneer) there’s less gold to go around, making gold more valuable than it was.
Not sure how long this will last – once people have flying and exalted on all their factions and such and can dedicate their mission tables to gold missions and their time to gold-generating activities and faster herb collections etc., and after the “whales” are done spending all their gold and money on very expensive mounts there may be an accumulation and inflation will set in.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see it climb back up over 200k after flying.
It’s confusing because there are like nineteen factors that affect token prices:
- Supply and demand.
- Inflation / value of gold.
- Promotions, causing more tokens to be bought and exchanged for gold.
- Gold making strategies.
- The “popularity” of WoW, i.e., do I make the gold or buy it?
- Expansion timing, i.e., are people taking breaks or gearing up for content?
You cannot really single one thing out and say, “yep, that’s the culprit.” Gold is harder to make. Tokens cost half of what they used to when gold was easy to make - the market dictates that 230k tokens just wouldn’t fly right now. Also, there are no promos running, the 8.1.5 content is arguably “meh.”
I watch token prices daily, because I use them to fund play time and get things off the Blizz store. I can tell you that even with new store mounts and pets, “block subscription promos”, the Warcraft III Remastered thing, etc., I haven’t seen token prices spike above 130. I’d have to check historical data on that to be sure.
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Ah, it’s a “world market” in that way. Good to know!
Not if there isn’t anything worth spending gold on other than game time.
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Yeah, I think I get it now. Weirdly, to me, the tokens are worth more gold the less value gold has! lol The more value gold has the less you get for real money. Life is weird.