I understand that with the WoW Token it is a way to go free to play as well as legal Gold Buying, however does anyone know the formula for it? Is there a way to know why/how it goes up and down?
For example does buying it with gold on the market make the gold per 20$ go up or down?
supply and demand
Just google supply and demand. There is no formula.
Market prices.
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Price goes up when there’s new Sales or Fancy things to buy from the BNET Store.
Price goes down when there’s a need for in-game gold. (Stimulus check + long boi, boost carries)
End of expansion requires less gold usually, but the longboi seem to be keeping the token price low.
Shadowlands release might see a token price rise as people buy more with gold to upgrade their game or return to the game upon release.
Also the drop/increase is capped at 3% per hour price change.
AH token prices go up when there is more demand for AH tokens than supply.
AH token prices go down when there is less demand for AH tokens the supply.
Let’s take a hypothetical example of the latter case. A new raid is released. Guilds need to buy a lot of AH things, like potions. This means guilds need to raise a lot of gold. In order to raise that gold, sponsored guilds will buy a lot of Blizzard tokens and sell them on the AH for gold. The amount of money spent in this way by world class guilds is staggering (but remember they are sponsored). The AH becomes flooded with tokens. As a result AH token prices drop (too much supply). This scenario is like the stock market when traders are trying to raise cash (gold) by selling stock (AH tokens). Stock (AH token) prices drop.
This is the most important bit, otherwise players would find a way to manipulate the rates.
There used to be an algorithm that showed how the price fluctuates over on wowtoken.info but I just visited and all information except token prices have been removed.
The price goes up and down based on supply and demand. However, Blizzard has put limits in place on how fast it can fluctuate to try and keep prices more steady. It can only increase or decrease so much per hour. From a layperson point of view, token prices are higher on Sunday and Monday than the rest of week. At least from my experience. I guess more people need to buy time over the weekend.