We need to bring the WoW token to classic wow before someone gets scammed. I see people trying to buy WoW tokens on retail for classic gold already. I know this is a big deal for alot of people keeping classic …well classic. However, we must realize the fact here. People have found ways to farm alot of gold on mages/hunters etc. and already have inflated the games economy. We need to think smart. Some people actually have jobs and don’t have time to farm for gold. Let’s be a community here people and actually make WoW tokens available for classic.
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I’ve seen gold spammers in classic, so those guys are definitely back at it. I understand the ideal that it wasn’t in vanilla so shouldn’t be in classic, but gold selling was also at it’s height before the token. I see the token as more or less a necessary evil. I suspect it’ll be introduced at some point purely for lost revenue going to third party companies.
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I agree. I also noticed that Blizzard has a huge increase of subscriptions since WoW classic’s release and people still spend a lot of hours playing the game every day. Their revenue will even sky rocket if they bring the WoW token to Classic WoW. People will not quit the game just because of a WoW token. For example…did people quit because of a extra 4 bag slots? Sure it’s not that big of a deal but so isn’t WoW tokens.
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We need to bring Death knights to Classic.
Let’s be a community here people, and do the thing that I personally want, regardless of what that means for the game.
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Wow tokens would make inflation even worse and change the dynamic of the game. Let’s preserve classic.
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I’m confused, how does a token help with inflation?
I feel like you’re trying to use something unrelated to argue for the thing you want.
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How will there be more inflation if WoW tokens are released? People already have the gold they are just stockpiling.
current system allows you to buy wow time on your retail account and it applies to classic. economy isnt really chaotic in retail, i doubt it’d wreck classic economy much.
players who hoard gold will still hoard gold.
$15 is 2 hours at minimum wage. if you farm for 2 days to buy your token, you are losing.
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It will greatly expand the pool of people who want to buy hot ticket items like flasks, edgemasters, etc. more buyers for the same number of products = higher prices
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Erm, to be fair that’s not quite true, to my understanding the token doesn’t generate gold, it simply takes gold from one player (the person getting the month of game time) and transfers it to another player (the person spending the real life money).
Basically, you’re right if the person in question was not going to buy anything with that gold. If they were, then when it changed hands the number of buyers remained the same, not increased.
I do agree it’s not a good fit for classic, though. It provides an option to wealth that doesn’t involve playing the game, which is ultimately less social than classic strives to be. Even the people solo farming are talking in guild chat, cracking jokes, etc.
EDIT: Thank you for the replies, the above is wrong, they do cause inflation and create gold. More reason to not have them.
No go back to retail
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Tokens were not implemented as a gold sink. While they can create/remove gold, it is pretty balanced out. In the end it just helps gold exchange hands. And makes Blizzard an extra 5$ a month per coin sold.
I’d rather not see that happen.
Not that I disagree with you on this at all, but I’d love to be able to verify it for myself. How can I do that?
If the token isn’t bought by a player, it’s “bought” by Blizzard to give you the gold you purchase. So it can generate gold from thin air.
Even so, it would be better for the game. Just like when it came out in Retail, it kills the gold sellers market and the crap they do to get the gold to sell.
So it has good and bad aspects.
Killing farming bots markets would be positive. If no one buys the tokens, and gold is “produced from thin air” prices will sky rocket.
It is. Since the sell price is guarantee, if you sell a token when it cost 1000 golds but the token price drop to 500 golds and someone buy your token, you receive 1000 golds. 500 golds are CREATED.
A lot of players aren’t buying gold from illegal ways because they are : afraid to be scam, afraid to be ban or just don’t care/know etc…
If the token is released it’ll just create inflation and remove the value of everything in the game + gold farm is part of the end game content.
All the players asking for WoW tokens in Classic are some retail lazy boys who don’t want/like to farm golds.
Because WoW tokens doesn’t prevent gold farmers at all (this is retail 1 month ago) :
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And the opposite is true. If you bought a Token when it was at 500 gold, And then it eventually sold to a Player for 1000, 500 gold is then removed from the economy. And since the ebb and flow goes both way, you end up with near zero sum game.
I forget where, but there is a blue post explaining how it works. When you buy the token at the listed price, you are guaranteed that price. Then the token is put at the end of the line.
As players buy the coins off the AH, the price will change per coin sold vs how many are available. So by the time the coin you bought gets to the front of the list, the price could have fluctuated in either direction. If the price went up, then gold has been removed from the game. If the price goes down, then gold would have been created.
So outside of the market shifts, gold is just moving from player A to player B, and Blizzard makes 5$ a pop.
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Wow, equating 4 bag slots to literally selling gold.
If Blizzard lifted their hands and did something then there could be a fix for botting/cheating etc, but that requires actual muscles, brain strength and moral power, none of which Blizzard has.
This isn’t comparable at all. A few extra bag slots does not equal buying gold.
It requires money they don’t want to spend. Gold buyers should be banned.
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