Because you said supply an demand. If a token was worth 300k in Legion, and now they are worth 100k. That means the demand must have tripled.
That is backwards. If Demand tripled, then the price would go up. Supply went higher than what the Demand was in Legion.
In Legion, everyone had a ton of gold. Everyone wanted to buy tokens with gold. So Demand was high. Price went up.
In BFA everyone does not have the same cash flow. Not as many people can buy tokens with gold. Demand has gone down. People are still buying tokens with IRL Cash to sell for gold. Therefor, gold price has also gone down since there is less gold in the system.
Now you are trying to sell me on the idea that in an expansion with way less gold that demand to buy gold has not risen! lol I give up. Iâll never understand this.
Think of it this way.
In real life, when you have a lot of extra money, you may eat out more at restaurants.
In real life, when you have less money, you will not eat out more at restaurants.
If this happens on a massive scale, that means demand for eating out would go from âhighâ to âlowâ.
I feel like we should get a few free SERVER migrations now. I mean, with the change that allows all characters on one realm and allâŚ
Make it 3 or so limited only to realms on which we already have characters over level 60
Even you list two sides to the equation here.
Surely you can see a change to either side of the equation affects the result?
So itâs illogical to assume which side has changed - or even that only one side has changed.
Itâs all proportional.
More players paying cash for tokens in proportion to players buying tokens with gold means a lower gold price for tokens.
Fewer players paying cash for tokens in proportion to players buying tokens with gold means a lower gold price for tokens.
More players buying tokens with gold in proportion to players paying cash for tokens means a higher gold price for tokens.
Fewer players buying tokens with gold in proportion to players paying cash for tokens means a lower gold price for tokens.
Not at all.
If more people want to buy cakes, and production of cakes is falling, there will be fewer cakes for each buyer.
If more people want to buy gold and the production of gold is falling, each buyer gets less gold.
Simple supply and demand.
Actually that makes sense. Less gold income in BfA means more players need to buy WoW gold (like raiders in the first raid tier). That means more tokens available through the AH and that drives down the price in WoW gold.
I prefer the current system. I play one character so mission tables arenât as useful. I like being able to buy Wow tokens by selling feasts and playing the game. In Legion I couldnât compete with people spamming 1500 gold missions on 50 characters.
I consolidated my 2 Horde realms into 1 (since in 8.1.5 that one will be unlimited), so last week I realm-transferred 3 level 110-120s. Oh well, I spent 75 fake dollars instead of 52 fake dollars. No big deal.
With the cheaper transfers, I might even consider transferring my level 20 goblin warlock. Itâs only 20 levels, but I hate to start over. I could start a new allied race character at 20, and race-change to goblin later, but that would cost the same as the realm transfer. And its fake money anyway.
I hope it goes up to 250K. That really would be amazing! I have my heart set on that Brutosaur mount
I have a pending Race change that Iâm regretting.
If the demand to buy gold went up, the amount of gold youâd get would go down, not up, because that demand signals that people are willing to pay more for the same amount of gold.
Thatâs what is happening. People are willing to accept pay more cash for the same amount of gold due to its increased relative value compared to back in Legion.
Think of the logic chain youâre championing: people want gold more than before so they⌠need more gold to buy? No, as their demand for gold goes up, the amount theyâre willing to receive goes down!
Not this guy. Iâm not dropping another $200 to buy a third of as much gold as it bought me last time I purchased the digital good. No way. But, Iâm done because it makes no sense why anyone would.
Let me try one last time. If you give up, thatâs fine.
Imagine that instead of deflation with BFA, we had another massive round of inflation. Instead of getting 2,000 gold for missions, you were getting 6,000, with everything in the game economy being three times as expensive too.
In that scenario, would you still be okay with getting 250k gold per token, or would you want triple the gold to make up for the inflation?
Ok, so, maybe this is where I get confused. In BfA there is less gold- yet everything vendors sale, lets say armor, pets, and mounts are more expensive than in Legion. So, we will use the frog mounts.
I buy a mount on the Blizzard Store = $20
I buy a mount in game = 333,000 Gold
Therefore, I buy a game token for $20 SHOULD equal 300k gold.
Bought gold in Legion $20 = 300k gold.
If the value of gold also affected the value of the actual in game currency that I use in game to purchase things from NPCâs (like whatever a mount costs in Legion say it was 300k to buy, it should now cost 100k to buy) then this would all make sense to me. Or if my real world money fluctuated so right now it was around $7 to buy 100k that would make sense to me.
My issue is that if what you are saying is right, why would ANYONE of sound mind purchase for a real $20- that is real life money where we pay bills and such- why would they ever under ANY condition give it to Blizzard for a digital good and get a third of what it had been worth before? If the cost of heirlooms, in game mounts, and other NPC prices have increased, then why would ANYONE willingly pay more for less, especially if gold is even harder to come by. It defies all logic, all reason.
What if the store mounts, pets, and services all tripled tomorrow where they were $20 in Legion but are now $60 in BfA? (since gold in BfA for 300k is now $60 for the same 300k that was $20 in Legion) Would people still purchase them? Why the hell would they do that?
Because for most people, they are using their gold to purchase items from the player economy, where prices have generally gone down dramatically, rather than the gold-sinks Blizzard has added.
The NPC stuff is mostly cosmetic with a few bells and whistles - looking at you Brutosaur - while the player AH stuff is what determines player power.
I planned on buying a couple anyway, if their worth more thatâs even better.
Oh, weird, I have bought nothing off the AH for, sheesh, I honestly do not know how many years itâs been! Maybe thatâs why it makes no sense to me. On one hand people are telling me itâs like a real-world economy, and then I say, ok, then the prices of everything NPCâs sale should fluctuate with the price of gold- like a real world economy, but I forgot all about the AH. Though it does not change my opinion, I guess that makes sense, but now you have me confused about something else.
If what you are saying is accurate and the AH is determining how much gold my $20 buys, how does that work if every server has a different economy? And, I still am confused why a grown man would pay $20 of his hard earned money to buy a third less gold. Why would they do that?
Ah, so youâre a good person to ask. So a year ago right now, you gave Blizz that same $40, youâd have 600k. Why give them the same $40 and get only 200k? Why are you ok with that?