Its an interesting theory that you can tell how well an expansion is doing based on the wow token price. There is no other measure for players to actually look at because Blizzard does not want any of that data out there.
A high token price means demand exceeds supply and therefore the game is in a good state because more people are buying than selling tokens. Or that less people are farming tokens and less people are buying them which would cause the price to rise.
A low token price means supply exceeds demand and the game is in a not ideal state because players are spending less money and time on wow. Or that the game is in a good state because supply is meeting demand and transactions are being made.
What makes this hard to be definitive is Blizzards token manipulations. A specific example of this is when they announced that the auction house long boi mount would be going away in Shadowlands. This caused the token price to go down around 25K in the US from 195K to 170K. Its held in that area since.
I assume if the price goes up again its because more people are putting their gold in to get a wow token or less people are buying the tokens.
The crucial part here is in knowing if the price was affected by more/less supply or more/less demand which would help determine the health of the game from the perspective of a wow token. Its something only Blizzard would know.
I do wonder how it is that we should interpret the health of this game via a wow token with the info given.
I think the token price has more to do with the # of overpriced whale mounts in the game, and how artificially scarce blizzard makes them.
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People want more gold for the patch. So more people are selling them. The same or fewer people are buying them.
Bingo. This worgen understands how it works.
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Yup i mentioned that also.
Actually you can’t because there are way way too many variables. Things like other games, store promotions, service sales, classic, ah mount going away,etc, etc.
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That doesnt fit OP’s conspiracy narrative. Which, I think, is that Blizzard is purposely giving less gold for tokens?
Not even. You failed to read the whole post.
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Also some people use their gold and tokens to fund their sub for classic.
I actually don’t think he said he believed in the theory.
I didn’t read the entire post either just the first and last part
No, but you can tell how popular WoW Tokens are based on their price. The higher the price, the more in demand they are.
The problem with the token is that there’s hardly anything to make the price drop. It sits at a steady price as long as there’s nothing to make it inflate, and then when there is it inflates then sits at the new increased price.
Unless, selling them for in-game is more popular that day. i.e. before a big patch or a special and expensive mount is being removed.
Thats what I am trying to determine if its 100% correct to think like that. It can also mean less supply but same demand. Which means less people are farming gold
Its not. Nobody has been able to make even a slight connection to health and price.
Yea there are alot of issues in determining this without more information. I do wonder if the game was healthy before the mount announcement as it was almost at 200K
The price of the token saw really no noticeable increase or decrease after the announcement of the Brutosaur being taken out. Unless you were referring to some other mount? (not even aware of any).