Ok, so my question is: Why are other countries getting higher priced WoW Tokens? I can estimate its due to purchases and such which drives prices but, stinks seeing it worth almost 300k+ in other countries, and 115k here in the US, or 150k in the EU; Spending two-three times the amount of money just to get what other countries get?
I’m curious if others who purchase these tokens to gain gold have ever been curious about this, and if perhaps there should be a set amount to everyone to be fair? I can’t imagine anyone in our shoes who purchases them to gain gold in-game (for their own reasons) would prefer to get less gold, when a friend across seas does the same and has two-three times the gold from a token they bought.
This is not meant to be a post other than thoughts on gold normalization for tokens. It seems it hasn’t been brought up, so I’m curious of peoples thoughts one way or the other.
Final Note: let’s keep the thread neutral: no trolling or rudeness. That’s not what needs to happen here. Just a nice thoughtful conversation, yeah? Good deal.
Supply and demand. More tokens equals less value from them. If nobody buying tokens they go up in value
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I have the same frustration. You’d think Blizzard could transfer revenues across servers to even out the market. Unless they are trying to incentivize players to change regions.
My understanding they are outrageous on the china servers because there is so much cheating, botting, etc.
Stinks though, doesn’t it? Seeing how little we get, makes me sad. I’ve gotten over 200k before. Now its at 115k, I want to buy one but it keeps going down…normalization, if anything would make them more money, I’d think, if they raised tokens to meet the highest currently, even; more people would buy = more cash to Blizzard.
@Luqkreezah: I mean, can they not? Its all Blizzard, why can’t they? Their partners stingy? Or maybe their partners across seas are more giving and we’re the stingy ones?
the tokens aren’t really a ‘pure’ free market
bliz has algorithms that adjust pricing and then it gets some play depending on supply/demand
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people keep buying tokens. It’s fine though i got almost three months on a BoE i sold.
Blizzard doesn’t care about the gold-value of a token. They care about the cash value of a token and that’s fixed at $20 USD (mostly normalized in local currencies but NZ/CAD seem to pay more than EU, TW, KN).
The gold-value for a $20 USD Token fluctuates based on player demand in that region, Blizzard has nothing to do with. They set the opening price for tokens in all regions to 30K gold on 7-Apr-2015 and then let player supply/demand drive the gold value up or down thereafter.
If the gold-value in EU is significantly higher than in US, for example, that’s because either a) there are a lot more players wanting game-time with gold; or b) there are a lot less players spending cash on tokens. Simple economics. At least one reason they do not create a single world-wide token market is that they charge cash prices in local currency rather than all regions paying in USD.
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Yeah, I understand all of this. Just sucks I guess, having the worst gold value, since gold is gold is gold. I know server to server gold prices fluctuate also for items, guess I just wish there was a way to normalize it a bit, as US in general has super-low gold values for tokens and almost always has had the lowest value out of any country. Oh well.
my theory -
tokens cost alot in china because of rampant botters/multiboxers deflating the value of gold
EU costs more than US as EU players buy less tokens
Is gold hard to make in SL? Every calling is no less than 1500g and usually 2x that much – daily.
It’s not comparable… 1,500g/day x 7 days = 10,500g. Even if we’re generous and double that it’s 20K g. The OP is lamenting that $20 USD buys him 115K gold in the US, but if he lived in the EU that same $20 USD would buy him 300K gold.
That’s a lot of gold for for 60-80 minutes out of your paycheck (assuming a wage of $15-20/hr) compared to the many hours needed to earn 300K gold through in-game methods. I mean if you’re already a gold-millionaire and are very savvy with the AH, maybe you can make that much in an hour or two, but as a novice trying hard, I could only earn about 150-200K/week flipping the AH. With the nerf to legacy gold-farming content, the AH and the SL Callings seem like the best ways to earn gold in-game, but to make 300K in <2 hr seems unlikely.
The OP has cash to spend and probably not the time to put into grinding gold from legacy content. He’s just wishing it was a global price market for token-gold value cuz there’s some envy about EU vs US (with US being lowest likely cuz we have the most whales). 