So, sat down, gave it five minutes of thought.
The reason the WoW Token is breaking economies is simple.
It’s universal - across all servers.
If the prices were adjusted to the existing economies of each server - it would be much more manageable.
Instead, you suddenly have people on nearly dead servers with millions of gold while others don’t have it.
It basically broke servers with lesser economies.
garrison mission tables broke the economy.
There was damage control after them. Economies may have normalized otherwise.
Nah.
The huge gold stockpiles that people got from WoD and every x-pack since then has done as much damage as WoW tokens.
I have millions of gold and I have never purchased a token or played the AH.
i 100% disagree
Other people are not you.
Let me explain economics in a nutshell.
When you give a poor person $2,500 - they run out and spend it immediately.
When you give a rich person $2,500 - they squirrel it away and ask for more.
You should have thought about it for at least one more minute.
You’d just have people gaming it on servers where it was cheap, and players would be justifiably upset at the same effort being rewarded differently. Or you’re otherwise pushed to have a farming character on X realm because it’s the cheap one for buying tokens for game time, but then you don’t want (or at least feel discouraged) to sell on your own home server because Y server has them selling for 30% more.
This would never fly.
What?
/10 char.
Yea forgot how wow tokens generate all the gold
Oh wait, they don’t really
Dang, good point. Think of how upset people would be if they get less gold return for their token because they are on a low pop server
Welcome to inflation, deflation, and so on.
100k on a poor server is much more than 100k on a rich server.
For instance, a hundred dollars to someone living in Beverly Hills is substantially less as compared to someone living in a trailer park.
I mean, to be fair the token isn’t really transparent. We don’t know for sure that every token purchased with cash was game time/balance purchased for gold. We just have to trust Blizz on that one, and well, I’m not sure how trustworthy they are currently.
? what on earth are you talking about
Why the poor stay poor. Bad spending habits.
Don’t give up your day job.
what do tokens have to do with this? People make gold in game…buy stuff from other people who end up rich…the only thing the token literally does is move gold from one player to another. Nothing new is created.
y i k e s.
and its still the same gold in the overall economy…
and its still the same gold in the overall economy.
… How are people not grasping this?
If you are from a POOR server. AKA - One without much of an economy, people to buy things, etc.
And you can net gold from A PERSON ON ANOTHER SERVER. To bring huge influxes of gold TO your server, you, essentially, is a wealth transfer.
Not Yikes. Imagine if people didn’t buy on credit, didn’t buy thousand dollar phones, etc.
It’s not. Server economies aren’t interlinked for any other purposes. The WoW Token is introducing gold to what should be self-sustaining economies.
Boy, this is a bad take