The impact should still be reduced compared to burning gas in the vehicles themselves though, because even the most efficient gas and diesel engines have garbage efficiency compared to power plants. There’s some loss in getting electricity from the plant to your house, but even with that factored in, power plants are still much better.
Additionally, some areas have mixed power sources. For example in PNW where I live we have a lot of hydro power.
it’s honestly kind of wild that people in this thread can’t even agree whether it’s high or low demand that’s dropping token prices, just that whatever it is, it’s because ‘blizzard bad’
That’s certainly how it’s supposed to work, or so we’ve been told. But we have zero data that would confirm or deny if it is working like this.
It’s a good time to play the game.
Tell that to the people in WoD who were paying for FAR less gold.
I think you’ll get over it.
So did a lot of other people. Plus the HC guilds and their suppliers racking them up to bribe feeder guilds for their extra tier pieces. Supply goes up, price comes down.
291 ilvl prices are why im not buying legendaries and im prob just gonna be SOL when i get around to doing mythics again.
How do we know this? Blizzard can print gold anytime they want to boost revenue and siphon it out of the economy by gold sinks or inflating prices on things.
Citation please. This is not a regulated economy with competing interests. Blizz prints the money, sets the prices, and has no oversight. They would be silly not to change the token price to make more money when needed.
All true. But then we shift a dependency on oil and gas to a dependency on rare earth minerals (like lithium for batteries) and semi-conductis/chips. Which puts us back in dependence on tyrants and human rights violators (sub-Saharan Africa, China, and Russia)
We are the Middle East of natural gas but we’d rather outsource our production to other nations with less environmental oversight for optics and political points.
One of the many perks of driving an electric car.
Can’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good and all of that.
Also, that’s why we just have to keep pushing even during the transition to EVs. Alternative sources of materials (lithium can be extracted from sea water and be profitable at adequate scale, for example), battery chemistries that require fewer conflict materials, and cleaner alternatives to traditional batteries are all things that can and should be pursued in the meantime.
I prefer imagining an elaborate system where Blizz manually adjusts the token price for their nefarious P2W objectives, to keep the casual player down.
You will need copper like there is no tomorrow for any EV.
And good thing that pipeline from Canada was canceled too.
Anyone else remember the Line 5 dispute with Ontario and Michigan last year.
Cuz they want you to buy more of them to get the same effect.
With a new gold sink suddenly in the game (expensive base items for legendaries) the ratio of buyers to sellers has shifted. More people suddenly want to buy gold. From this, using the very straight-forward concept of supply and demand, here we are.
One of the perks of public transportation, though it certainly has its own headaches.
Prior to China bottoming out the market by scouring and destroying their own environment like the Once-ler, the biggest source of rare earth elements was actually a mine in California.
I see it like oil: Great, let’s roast through everyone else’s first.
Some of us can thankfully afford both