Looked at cata economy. 4 gold for 1 embersilk. lol
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Tokens are irrelevant, you can make the 5k gold a token is worth in a night of questing and mining.
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Only 4 gold per cloth? Wow that must be nice
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Has nothing to do with tokens.
Let’s connect dots that are not there some more please.
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Tokens do not inflate the economy, as they do not add new gold to the game. They simply transfer gold from one player to another. When someone pays $20 to blizz for a token, they do not get their gold until another player has bought said player’s token off the AH.
On the other hand, raw gold farms and quests do inflate the economy, as they add new currency to circulation. You need gold sinks to remove it, expensive vendor items, like the 12.5k in vendor mats for the mechano-hog.
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It’s the bots, Everytime I try to gather a herb I have to fight with a druid bot with flying down and grabbing it before they fly away with gibberish for names. I’ve reported hundreds and nothing. There are bots everywhere. its getting ridiculous.
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I wish tokens just printed money and I didn’t have to wait for someone to buy it.
Tokens do not create gold. They are not inflating anything.
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lol. That was my thought. In cata I was still selling copper ore for 100g a stack of 20. I had a system too. Level a Draenei through the starting zone and by the time I left, had 2-3k
Lol at you thinking it’s the tokens
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Only a fewl would put mats up for less, take advantage of the profession power leveling.
Cloth and anything engineering, herbs for milling etc always glad I have gatherers of my own.
It’s still week 2 everyone is levelling professions especially now that most people are raiding and going for BIS i.e. tailoring for all casters. This is as expensive as those mats will ever be.
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Mats have already dropped in price by 50%
You can make gold so easy in cata its nonsense
Fyi full MC clear is like 600 - 700g
Ony 100g
Random heroic at 100g, 7 times a week drops to 50g each time after.
Dont forget questing
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Embersilk is 4g because it’s very early in the expansion, people are still leveling their professions and so there’s a huge demand. It’s the same reason why herbs are expensive, it’ll go down in if the demand goes down but it’ll take a while.
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Whats adding gold into the system is having 10x the normal original playerbase + bots on a server. You have 10 times the amount of raw gold being generated by players so its only natural that prices would be increased for sought after items.
Glad to see my years of explaining how the game economy works wasn’t completed wasted. Now people actually know it’s the bots, not the tokens.
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Tokens DO inflate prices on the server, even if they do not add gold, they add velocity. Let’s say player A has 100k gold, but isn’t spending any of it as he has nothing to buy, so he decides to sell some of his gold for game time.
Presumably, player B is selling game time for gold to spend it. So 6k gold that was sitting still is now in player B’s hands and he will buy something with it, increasing buying pressure on items in the economy, raising the prices.
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Botted gold>tokens
So even if you soft ban a few buyers (they don’t really) then you still have a influx of gold from bots. Tokens cost more…
that wasn’t the tokens, that was spending 8 months with nothing to do but accumulate gold in wotlk.
Luckily making gold in Cata is as easy as logging in.
That isn’t how inflation works, inflation is literally the introduction of more currency to the circulation of currency, trading gold between each other does not increase or decrease currency unless the player who is receiving the gold decides to buy a bunch of stuff from npc vendors that A: eliminates the gold entirely or B: the vendor provides tools to double player Bs gold income at the cost of some gold for an hour.
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