WoW Tokens and the nature of the Classic Auction House

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I would like to posit a couple of questions, as I admit my memory from 15 years ago is spotty at best. In the good old days of Vanilla, I got the distinct vibe that the Ironforge/Orgrimmar Auction house and its contents were not linked to each other, to the neutral Auction houses in Booty Bay/Gadgetzan, or to other servers.

Now, seeing as we have confirmation that a sub bought from a WoW token will get you access to Classic, I find myself wondering two things.

1: Is my memory about the Auction Houses not being linked accurate or were they linked in the old days?

2: Will WoW Tokens be able to be bought sold and traded on Classic Servers or will we have to go to our Retail server to buy/sell one?

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  1. The city auction houses are linked in classic. 1 per faction, and then 1 for all the neutral towns.
  2. I hope tokens are in this. It’d be stupid not to. That just means we’ll be going to the black market to trade and they’ll be losing revenue for nothing. If any players are lost because of this; they’ll lose subs too. Tokens=win/win for everyone. No tokens=lose/lose for everyone.
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  1. They were not linked in very early iterations, but will be for WoW Classic release.
  2. If they are, I along with many others who actually want this game without changes will just go to private servers. If I have to give something up to play the game, I’ll do it for free. Blizzard would be extremely stupid for implementing the tokens in WoW Classic.
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Struggling to see how it’s a win for anyone except bfa players with gold to burn and people with their mum’s credit card…

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There will be no WoW Tokens in Classic. You can farm them in retail to extend your subscription time, which is linked between the two.

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Assuming you could even trade tokens between versions, the transfer rate would be horrendous. You’d be trading like 1 million BFA gold for 10 classic gold.

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Cross Faction was not linked, but each factions 3 AH’s were linked to each other.

The three Steamwheedle Cartel AH’s were linked to each other and usable by both factions, but not linked to either faction.

No, that’s a modern absurdity.

You will have to go to Retail. Tokens will not be present in Classic, and only some trust-trade shenanigans will allow you to buy Classic gold. Or paying shady RMT businesses.

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It would be stupid to include them. Not only for the fact that they weren’t in Vanilla, or the absurdly low price they’d command, but simply because it would be destabilizing to the economy of a game not designed for Tokens.

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Gold trading was always in the game, whether you liked it or not, and it always will be. Blizzard just lost revenue by not having an official means of enabling it themselves (much like hosting this). Being against it is to foolishly support middleman scalpers, rather than the developer. Also, it does NOT hurt an economy. I’m only going to re-explain this so many times. So long as gold is earned, and coming from players which earned it, then there is no harm to the economy by trading it to another player. In fact they could add a gold sink to it by destroying some of it in the process (auction house?), meaning it could HELP the economy.

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The difference is when you incentivize the players to do the farming, it far outweighs the side market in shady corners.

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#nomtx #tellbillyNOmtx #stopthewhaling

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this right here. It’s actually a slick ploy on Blizz’s part. Fans of classic that don’t want to pay real $ for a sub will be encouraged to remain playing retail for the gold to buy tokens.

I know, that’s a stretch :smiley:

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They should allow them at whatever the current Classic economy dictates it should be.

$20 real life for 50-75 silver in game.

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Early vanilla the AH’s were not linked. Each major city had its own AH.

At some point in vanilla the AH’s became linked, so every major city per faction had the same AH. Neutral AH still existed and was still separate (Gadget).

The token will not be for purchase in Classic. You can purchase it the same way you can now, and you can obviously still pay for your sub with it, since retail and classic share a sub. That’s the token’s only relation to Classic.

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There are tokens in game… in BfA. Blizzard will not add tokens in Classic, because they want you play modern WoW, buy expansions, etc. Which is why the sub fee is shared between the two games.

And if that is the case, and you really want to play to earn game time… BfA is much more efficient to do this. Gold is handed over like candy… you can run a few old raids each week and buy a token.

Gold in Classic is already scarce… and takes time to earn/farm. Yes, the cost of tokens would be much less in Classic… but regardless… earning that money in Classic is more time consuming for the masses.

It doesn’t make sense to add tokens to Classic… as it benefits Blizzard to entice the Classic crowd to play modern WoW.

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Hee It’s a wow token thread, this should go places! :popcorn:

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It means pay to win - people with disposable income outside the game can far outstrip people in game who work for every scrap they get. One of the beauties of classic WoW was it’s egalitarian nature - everyone in the game shares the same opportunity for success or failure.

Yes some people will attempt to purchase gold on the black market. As in Vanilla, they risk their credit information and run the risk that their gold and items will be confiscated by Blizzard and their accounts banned. If you want to assume the risk, you can buy black market gold.

Classic players who love the game absolutely do not want to see Blizzard sanctioned pay to win.

If you feel you can’t afford the time in game to farm up what you need - cry me a river.

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If they add tokens, they lose most of their subs. People will just go back to private servers. They’d actually lose money.