This is going to be hard for people to learn but sub fees are money you flush down the toilet. You give them subs and they:
You pay for a brutosaur and you get a brutosaur.
Ah ok, so no one is putting anymore tokens up on the auction house to buy.
Got it
you pay for a license to use the brutosaur just like you pay a sub to enter the servers
People are putting them up still. There are just more people buying them off the AH then there are people putting them up, which is creating the shortage.
Mats are cheap because people are desperately dumping their stocks, both because stock prices are crashing, but also because they know that they NEED to buy a token now if they need one.
Yep. It’s a total mystery my man. Knowbody could of no’d that tokens would be scarce and spiking in price after today.
Must have been something the players did.
I’m getting conflicting answers on this online. It strikes me as wrong that they could charge tax on balance, balance is already processed funds. I’d have to see it in action to know for sure, but if they ARE, they should be compensating tokens in those states specifically.
As Yunming said, it’s more that the rates are off, but you get the idea in any case.
Been playing the token meta game all day, sadly only at 3 so far.
I’d post what my purchase page looks like if I had the ability to post screenshots here, but I can assure you that it will charge tax on bnet balance if you’re in one of the states that charges taxes on digital goods. It makes the bruto cost 95 bucks if I wanted to purchase it with bnet balance myself.
And yeah, this does mean transactions made in these states are effectively double dipping on taxes.
Someone will find some way to be angry at Blizzard for this.
Digital taxes are a headache and I hate thinking about them.
So what you’re saying is that I should dump my bnet balance into tokens and make tons of gold.
Fun as it can be to raise the old torch and pitchfork in blizzard’s general direction, I hope most people can understand that this particular choice is something out of their hands.
I know they probably won’t, but I can hope.
there’s nothing mysterious about it, they’re sold out. Not enough people are buying tokens with dollars compared to people buying tokens for gold. That’s why the price has gone up 47K today (and climbing)
Really good time to take advantage of the market I see 
Yep, and after the initial rush, tokens will be going for 500k+ and everyone who didn’t buy a mount will start selling them to buy mats. And mats prices will rebound.
Why is everyone buying tokens so suddenly? I thought tokens only bought game time?
Game tokens buy game time OR can be exchanged for bnet balance. People are buying them en masse right now to exchange for balance and buy the bruto mount.
You can also convert them to bnet balance to spend in the store or buy anything else on battlenet (except a token).
Still kinda weird. Its like tesla cars, having heat seaters installed, but then paying a fee to use them XD People were very angy about that on twitter for a while
Dude I’ve refreshed 100 times. No Luck on even one.