In order to preserve the integrity of the game and provide a better token market to players, with an update to World of Warcraft on Tuesday, November 21, we will enable the following restriction in this region.
• Players will no longer be allowed to purchase a WoW Token from the Auction House or the in-game Shop for gold if they have not spent real money to purchase and consume at least 30 days of game time (a “Time Limited License”) since 2017.
This does not affect the consumption of existing WoW Tokens, however, game time provided by the consumption of a WoW Token does not count toward the qualification to purchase a WoW Token for gold.
After November 21, 2023, any player who cannot purchase a WoW Token for gold in-game will need to first purchase and consume at least 30 days of game time for real money. This can be done on any World of Warcraft account across the player’s Battle.net account to qualify.
Thank you.
will this make the token go up or down in gold-price?
Like, this is a really bad for a lot of players. (but i’m a gold-buyer)
It might shoot up a bit just before the 21st as people stock up and then fall some after as people stop buying it until they pay their month with real money. The question is when will it even out and where that price will be.
I misread then. But your wording on it is also pretty not great. You are a Token buyer. Not a gold buyer lol. Wording is everything, and pretty sure I wasn’t the only one thinking that. And if I thought that, you can bet some admin would think the same with that wording.
How is it really bad for “a lot of players”? I doubt there are that many players who haven’t bought one single month of gametime with their own money for 6 years and are absolutely not able to afford this now for one single time.
This is really only affecting the people who sell carries (or are sitting at gold cap through other means), who haven’t paid their sub since Legion because of it.
If you haven’t paid for the game in almost 7 years, but you’ve been playing it that whole time, you should pay for at least one month of game time. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that.
A lot of people in EU countries that are still bound by Euro price of a sub can’t afford to play the game any other way than by token, we’re talking countries where the avg wage is 400 Euro or less PER MONTH
It’s not that they can’t afford to live or have things, because everything else is adjusted to that wage, but wow is not
Ooooh is it time for another discussion about how giving a bunch of underdeveloped countries access to the deutschmark as their currency was a bad idea?
Haven’t had one of those since the financial crisis in Greece!
It costs what it costs. It’s not free-to-play and Blizzard isn’t running a charity. Hopefully they’ve been able to save up one month’s sub in the almost decade they’ve been playing for free.
That’s a whole nother issue there lol, one could definitely argue that these countries were not in a position to adopt their money to the Euro and all the issues that came with that.
