Oh the rich people who keep upping prices. 
Weird.
Hereās the most subscribed gold farmer on youtube. Heās been around forever and still posts multiple videos per day. His claims are the exact opposite of yours. He just posted this and has several videos like it. Just watch the first 30 seconds
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xl3pEUh1Fk]
basically says most of his audience claims its too hard to farm gold now, he has the biggest audience in the gold making community.
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Yeah people donāt want to actually farm the gold because gold farming itself is boring at least for me when I farm gold its not for fun its for a goal like to see how fast I could get the epic edition of War Within or Diablo 4 both took about a month of farming each.
So you deserve the option to just buy it? Instead of playing the game?
exactly but not just because its boring, it takes absurd amounts of time and gold farms can also lead to carpal tunnel. So where is this army of people willing to do all this to supply people with their wow tokens?
Yeah but thatās not the way inflation works. Inflation is caused by an increase in the ratio of money to goods and services.
So for example inflation would happen if there was too much gold in the game or if there was a shortage of things to buy with your gold.
Well the amount of gold in the game is constant. If there are X number of mobs and if you kill them you get Y amount of gold then thatās it. No new gold comes into the game.
As for production, there may be more people buying things but each will have less gold because what was there is being spread around.
So Tokens should not cause inflation.
I pay my sub in WoW tokens just because a vocal group that wants something for nothing whines doesnāt mean everyone agrees with them these people actually help players like me yes it is to hard for them to make gold so they should just stop so I can make even more gold.
thatās what I said. The point you are missing is that they hide the supply and demand chain of the wow token. You cannot see how many people are buying them with gold or real money just the change in price over time. No real economy would ever do this unless they had something to hide. It also makes sense because inflation is rampant not just slowly increasing over time.
WoW economics is not like world economics, but it is similar. To inject money into economy that would be the government giving grants, lowering interest rates on loans, giving additional tax refunds, stimulus checks ect. In WoW injecting gold into the economy, would be larger bonuses on world quests, or increasing gold drops from bosses ect. That is effectively adding gold into an economy where before there was none.
The token does not do this. The token is a way for players to spend the gold that they already have to convert the gold into a real world currency balance. There is no injection of currency in the perspective of economics. It is redistribution of existing currency.
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Yep, it amazes me that people want millions of gold and want to be that guy who can flaunt it. But flaunt what, and to who? Maybe you will get lucky if you know how to find things on the BMAH, maybe you will be able to not pay $15 a month for a sub, but thatās it, you earn enough gold passively to buy all your consumables.
And if you want to buy things like mounts or pets, once you have your gold and have those, there really is nothing much left to buy.
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If this was true inflation would be rising equally to how it was before the wow token was implemented when bots would farm gold and sell it to people on third party websites. The wow token was trying to both end this and get a slice of the pie at the same time. Sure it hurts the economy when this happens, go play classic or SoD and you will see, but almost everything is still profitable. Classic has a huge botting problem and any item that would typically be worth something is still profitable even with that many bots.
Retail has inflation so high that only rare items are worth farming. Inflation that seems to come out of no where and makes the classic inflation problem look like a joke. How is it that this change in rampant inflation became so apparent when the wow token launched and only gets rapidly worse. The wow token is supposed to replace gold buying on third party websites. Yet all the evidence points to gold injection due to there being no financial incentive to farm wow tokens like there used to be for third party websites before the wow token
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if inflation was high, EVERYTHING would be worth farming.
That wonāt make a difference. Inflation is not something people cause if they know whatās happening, itās something that happens to people whether they understand it or not.
- Either there is more gold being added to the system or there is not.
- Either there are fewer goods and services to buy with gold or not.
If you donāt have one or the other you will not have an increase in the ratio of money to goods and services which means you will not have inflation. In any case itās not at all clear how tokens would impact either one of those causes for inflation.
I mean itās better to have the token than have bots/stores spam selling gold and peoples accounts getting compromised to sell gold. I mean Iām with you I donāt like RMT in the game, but Iām not sure how it is P2W? Even with oodles of gold bought with real money, that doesnāt somehow make you better at the game. Itās not like you can buy the best gear or whatever either. Now if you say what about people buying carries in raids, that would happen regardless of Token or notā¦and tbh, people who buy carries like that, deserve our pity, not our envy.
You donāt farm tokens. You buy them with real money then sell them at the AH. And for anyone to buy a token they have to farm the gold that is already in the game. No new gold comes into the game because of this, people buying tokens are farming the gold that is already there.
Letās talk about how easy it is to farm gold because of the wow token.
Itās not more easy. Killing any existing mob to pick up their gold is no easier or harder just because you intend to spend it on a token.
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I know I was trying to point out the OPās error.
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Umm yes it does make a huge difference if they are injecting the gold when there are not enough gold sellers to keep up with demand. Iāll admit I donāt have hard evidence, but neither do you. Nobody knows if they inject the gold into the economy partially for wow tokens because its the only item in the game they hide the supply and demand of which is extremely shady considering its implementation has coincided with the economy declining at a suspiciously fast pace.
Ok