And that’s a fair assessment. It’s your money to value as you see fit. If you want to value the absolute number of units of gold per dollar, that’s totally valid.
I was just trying to help understand what the disconnect with people was.
Damn my thread turned into a Zulzamba argument…
I always find these wow token threads fascinating. They show what an amazing job blizz/ea has done shaping our perception on how wow token prices work.
Yup, and it’s too bad for Blizzard.
Easy gold = no question to buy tokens for anything I want and they get extra money each token.
Scarce gold = I don’t buy tokens and may not stay subbed so they make nothing.
Genuinely curious. What would you be using your gold that you sold your token for?
Across the board, items are generally cheaper now than what they were during Legion. While there is the occasional exception for a few special items, current prices typically reflect the lesser amount of gold in the system.
I actually have almost no use for Gold since I’m not a crazy mount, pet, or transmog collector. Whatever I get on my own is enough, if the mount’s cost were outrageous it better have a reason to be so like the Traveling Mammoth and the Transmog Yak. I personally cannot see myself buying the 2 million Spider mount that does nothing or the 5 million AH mount.
I generate excess gold, so the best option is buying WoW tokens for either more time that I keep at least a year in advance or extra balance for future products. I wish I could buy physical objects with Blizzard Balance, I would fill my room with Frostwolf puppy plushies.
Oh ok. I read that in reverse. My bad.
Yeah, I think I misread your post too lol.
I’d honestly guess even more, the sale combined with the allied races AND the 50 toons per realm change, I’d expect wow tokens to sell like hotcakes for the rest of the month. 30% increase is my guess.
Yeah, my 10-15% guess was before the sale was announced. Its currently at 115k. Only Europe so far has had a tick up in token prices since the sale was announced. 30% up would be 150k. I still think thats a little high, but it really wouldn’t surprise me.
You should go hit up the Khan Academy or someplace like it and work your way through some of the econ for idiots level courses.
https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain
end of x-pac.
thats only reason they inflated to that high to begin with.
if u recall during the content they were only in 100k’s.
only jumped to the 200k+ when the end of x-pac content drought happened for so long.
This is backward. Since gold is harder to obtain, it’s more rare and valuable.
With mission board not giving out 2 K missions:
I don’t think it will get higher than 100 K.
I won’t buy a token again, unless it is 200 K plus; I got spoiled in Legion. I saw it worth 20 bucks to get the rest of the Light Forged Warframe (500 K.) I saw it worth another 20 or 40 bucks to get some other mounts on the AH.
I don’t buy tokens FOR gold. I buy them WITH gold.
I’m surprised the WoW token is only 116k gold. I’m guessing people already converted their excess gold to battle.net bucks (I did) and are using that to pay for transfers to consolidate their toons rather than buying WoW tokens on the AH right now.
Yeah this is basically what it comes down to. For most things, disabling your access is more trouble than it’s worth so they won’t undo / refund, but they’ll put the value onto your account in game time.
Not as lucrative as it could be for those treating this as a F2P game thanks to WoW Tokens, but I still pay $15/mo (even though I basically never unsub, I should really do a package thing) so it’s nice for me.
Oh god dang it.
I faction changed 2 toons on Saturday.
Yeah, the thing was that I was looking at it in terms of the real world economy, in that I was looking at the things in game being purchasable with real world money and a company like Blizzard trying to turn a bigger profit.
In other words, ever since we could buy gold for cash, my perspective became that the goods in WoW were now worth real world money. So, in Legion, when I could buy 300k gold for $20, I would see something somewhere for 300k and think to myself- ah, that’s $20. When I saw something for 100k, I thought to myself, hmm, that thing is $7.
So, in Legion, I see a mount for 1 million gold and I thought to myself, that thing costs a bit over $60. Now, even though that mount is the same, I look at it and I think, WOW that mount costs $200! No way I would buy that now!
So take the frog mounts, based on what they cost in Legion, those frogs would have cost me about $27, pretty much like a mount on the store, and so I totally would buy all of them. However, each of them now cost over $60 a piece! Hell, Longboi currently costs $1000!
The way I looked at the economics was that Blizzard gets a sub fee from me, plus they would get my money for gold. So, say I wanted to buy all the frogs at one time Blizz would have gotten $15 + $60 to buy the three frogs. However, now Blizzard gets $15 and… nothing else.
Now, if I see anything anywhere in the game for 100k I think to myself- man, that thing used to cost $7 and now costs $20 and is def not worth my money at such a price. So, that was the issue. I see things in the game for the cash they actually cost us as opposed to seeing it as costing make believe golds in the game, because we can buy them with real world money. I assume guys that pay with their subs with gold think to themselves these days in the same terms. To them 100k = $15 sub in their heads. They are not thinking of the gold as gold either, they are thinking of it as money.
My confusion was that if I had a company, having gold at 300k for example for $20 sells way more gold (which is also $5 more money than the guys paying for gold would have paid for their sub) and I would think that the company would want gold to be at that 300k because then the guys paying for the subs with the gold they are selling are having to get three times as much- meaning they must play the game three times as much- meaning higher “time played” metrics.
So, hopefully you see where my issue is. Since everything in WoW is purchasable with real world money- it means it all has a real world money price on it. And, I am confused why people would give more of their real world money and get less for it and why a company that should be seeking to make a profit intends on making less by (not only making the value of gold worth much less real world money) but also by making it easier for people to pay with their subs by needing to play less time in game to hit the amount needed. Still confuses me, but my money stays in my wallet until the in game goods are worth the real world money they cost. And using things like store mounts as a way to deem what is or is not worth the money is a good test. If a store mount is $20 or $30 then one should def not buy the gold to buy one that is costing one $60.
There are some ingame mounts that I am slowly farming gold for.
but if the token price goes up to 200k? then I will buy like 10 tokens.
If 250k+? then I am buying 20 x tokens and get that Bruno mount.