Yeah, because that is making 200k laughably faster than I ever could with out buying a token.
Now if it ever dropped below 90k I probably wouldn’t unless I really wanted the money as fast as possible.
Interesting that your limit is so much lower than mine. If it’s less than 250k I see it as a scam, easily. Well, that settles it, there must be millions of more you’s than there are of me’s.
They should have included character boosts in there as well.
Because the price of the token is based on what people are willing to buy/sell that token for. Generally speaking, every time someone buys it for gold, the gold price goes up a little bit. Every time they buy it for cash, it goes down a smidgen. It does this across all AHs to avoid people getting penalized for buying it on the ‘wrong’ server.
Because generally, the amount of gold is just a number. What truly matters is what that gold buys.
If you’re buying the gold to purchase flasks and potions for raiding, enchantments, gems, etc, then that amount of gold gets you quite a bit further than it did in legion.
While I don’t personally like it, thanks for explaining it to me. At least now I finally understand how this system works. I am still very perplexed why anyone would buy a token for $20 and get a third of the gold for it, but that’s something all those crazies would have to explain to me one by one. In the meantime, I’ll keep the cash to myself and let the suckers buy gold for now.
You’re welcome. Happy to help ![:slight_smile:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/slight_smile.png?v=6" ":slight_smile:")
Odds are, the gold per token ratio will go up if we have massive inflation again.
On that day, Blizz will love me.
The value of the token is based on how many people actually buy it.
Just because you list it and you get gold doesn’t mean it actually sold.
You will get the promised estimated amount usually after 12 hours, buyer or no buyer.
As the amount of wow tokens collects, with fewer and fewer purchasers of said tokens, the value for each of them diminishes.
The value of wow tokens will rise again, when there are fewer of them on the market than there is demand.
Now you confused me again! People keep telling me contradictory info. Some people say the demand for gold and tokens is high (because there is less gold in game), and because so many people are buying tokens $20 for 100k, that it is keeping them around 100k.
You are saying the opposite, that because no one is actually buying the gold, that the price of them is 100k. I’m confused again. You trolling a troll, troll? lol
I’m saying people aren’t buying the wow tokens with gold, as much as there are people buying wow tokens with real life money to try to make gold.
The supply is higher than the demand.
Basic economics
Oh, all this time I was reading that backwards. You guys are saying that people are not using gold to buy game time.
If it helps I never expected to see wow tokens over 150k, so when they were it was a nice surprise.
I keep my expectations low so I’m not disappointed by the drops.
Correct!
And if Blizzard didn’t auto generate what they think the token would eventually sell for and mail it to you, it would probably take a few weeks to sell 1 token. That is after all the tokens placed before you sold.
Ok, good to know. That means most people are paying sub fees instead of playing for free. This makes sense.
Exactly!
There are so many people paying for multiple subs for a economy they think is always buying game time with gold…
Ha… there might be 50 on each server that do that every month.
But it is probably far fewer, with several thousand on each server always dumping real life money into gold.
It illustrates how hard it is now to make gold in this game, when more people are willing to sell wow tokens to make it than there is people willing to farm it and buy wow tokens.
The economy changes over time, especially after expansion releases. If you had 1 million gold in Legion you were essentially considered middle class because it was so common for people to have 1 million gold. If you have the same amount in BFA you are considered even wealthier, even though you still only have 1 million.
There are more gold sinks in the game and less ways to make gold easily. So on average players have less gold. The idea is that 1 gold in BFA is worth the same amount as, let’s say 5 gold, in Legion, just as an example.
Or if we use baseball cards as an example. There is one specific player’s card that is worth “x” amount. Suddenly they mass print and distribute copies of that card. It floods the market and it’s worth goes down. They stop mass printing it but it is so common that it is no longer worth as much so people just start throwing them in the trash. Eventually it will become worth more even though it is still the same card because people are destroying them at a faster rate than it is being printed, meaning they are becoming less common.
That’s why people would pay the same amount for less gold. Because each gold is worth more because it is harder to make.
My only issue with that is that the NPC in-game item prices should fluctuate also along with the AH’s and token prices.
NPCs ignore basic economic rules. They have an infinite supply of whatever they are selling, and if people arent buying their stuff they arent intelligent so they dont care.
Yeah, that’s why it’s weird to me. People say, “it works like a real world economy”- go tell it to the NPC’s! If they have infinite of something, it should all be free. lol
Well the economics themselves do work like the real world. But NPCs dont exist in the real world so they are exceptions. They only really serve as a gold dump in WOW. If gold was only ever traded with other players through the auction house there would never be any gold removed from the economy, so prices would only ever go up as more gold is created through quests and such.