Ok I can’t be the only one that has noticed a shift far more heavy handed this expansion. During good ole Shadowlands I had my suspicions things were going this way, at least in Dragon flight there were a few niche ways to keep your gold in check.
However in The War Within all of those methods have been removed or heavily reduced.
Dragon racing used to be a good way however that has been reduced to one 10th of what is used to be.
Don’t even get me started on the 50g we get from dungeon completion in M+
and the final nail. Repairs… my god… REPAIRS! Raid and dungeons cost thousands of gold if you are pushing content.
This thus inflates the need for time in the game which is hard if you work and have a normal life. Or spending money on WoW tokens which is def’s the ploy part of this post.
I worry Blizzard is going to price people out of its game. Remember if they do this the Whales will leave. Seen it happen in other games and sadly it can happen to wow too.
Financial accessibility is important in game. Hence why the FTP model even exists. It gets to a point where it will damage the game and I feel we are there. What do you guys think?
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what changed with repairs
all I know is I’m spending 600 gold every time I want to change clothes and go role-play. unacceptable.
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The ship that Blizzard cares has long since sailed. They’re just milking the game for whatever they can at this point.
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^THIS! THIS^ so much! I’m sick and tired of paying eons of gold to change my clothes that I worked so hard to accumulate. Ugh Blizz 
Fortunately Sendryn gave me the secret to just keep my RP clothing in my bag if I have some and then swap out manually rather than continually transmogging.
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Gold has no value in this game. Too many ppl sit on too many gold caps.
They try to fix this by reducing raw gold, instead of siphoning the excess gold out of the economy.
The AH mount could have helped if they introduced it rather as an item buyable for gold from a vendor, than as a shop item for which you need to buy wow token from gold (technically trade your gold over to someone else, instead of having it zeroed out by the vendor).
I’ll never know why did they do this instead, especially with BFA timewalking already being grossly overdue… It would have been a perfect excuse for the return of the ah mount except in a renewed state, buyable from the original BFA vendor for gold.
The way they introduced it, only worsened the inflation of the gold currency.
I know plenty of friends/guildies that were sitting on 5M plus gold, converted just enough to buy a Gilded Bruto from the ship (about 1.2M gold), so I’m not sure it would’ve been much different if they put it on a vendor vs in the shop.
The demand-side pull for the WoW Token would’ve been from those spending Cash rather than those spending gold, had it been on a vendor rather than in the shop.
I can still make 100-150k a week without playing the AH or have TWW. I don’t think its that bad.
Making gold is so easy. I have been playing the game a bit less and just last week i made 100k selling the pvp bloodstones on the AH. If i really tried with farming i could make probably 200k+ a week.
It would have still removed a lot of raw gold from the economy.
Even ppl who would have bought gold via wow token, would have given the gold to the vendor → removed forever (unlike when you spend it in ah and such).
Also if it was up to me, I would have sold it for the same price as it was sold in BFA, so 5 million gold.
Why? Because blizzard themselves said multiple times how they didnt want it to become too common which directly contradicts what they did.