I am NOT asking for WoW tokens for classic! I repeat I am NOT asking for WoW tokens for classic!
My game time is up in a few days and this months been tight. I don’t have a debit or credit card so my only option is to go to the store and buy game time cards for 30$. My questions are simply these:
Could i make a toon on retail and have someone trade me a game token? Whats a good gold price for one converted from retail amounts into classic? Does any of this violate the TOS?
I’m especially worried about that last question. that is why i thought i would ask here first before trying anything. Again i am not advocating or insisting wow tokens be brought to classic! I know very well it would ruin classics economy and the thought of a classic wow cash shop makes me want to vomit blood!
I think, and I could be wrong since it’s been two years since I played retail, that you can only trade tokens via the Auction House. Someone would be able to give you the gold for it, however.
Buying tokens on retail then playing classic is not against any rules… not sure why anyone would even suspect that. Blizzard linked the gametime on these versions of the game. So this is a very obvious option for players.
My father is a financial advisor. He used to tell me “If you worked half the time you dumped into those stupid video games, you would be a millionaire”.
Ya well he can keep those millions. its not worth the slow and steady destruction of my body and soul that all those hours of mind numbing and back breaking work would inflict to get that money.
No real money would be transferred so I don’t know why Blizz would have a problem with the transaction.
Ask on the Blizzard customer service forum. They usually have people there who are can give you a definite answer.
As for the conversion rate, no clue. You’d have to check the gold seller rate to get a ballpark estimate for what 170k in retail gold (the current price of a $20 WoW token) is worth in Classic gold.
You may wish to check the EULA though for anything related.
So, if I understand correctly, what you are asking about is whether it would be a violation in any way for you to pay gold in Classic WoW for someone to give your Retail WoW character a WoW Token, for game time. Is that correct?
I think OP is asking if someone can buy a game token with in-game gold and still gift it away.
It’s doable with real money- you buy the token in the shop and flag it as a gift to someone’s battle tag. But if you buy it with in-game gold, does the time automatically apply to you, or does it become a transferable token that you can then give to someone else in-game via simple “Click to trade” like a BoE?
Tokens can’t be moved at all from the purchasing character. They’re soulbound once purchased.
Another player could send/trade you the gold and you could buy your own token from the AH instead.
As for getting trading classic gold to try and accomplish this, I would NOT recommend doing so. If the deal goes south, Blizz will not step in to fix it. It’s a completely unsupported transaction. So if you give the other player gold in classic and they toss you on ignore, say goodbye to that gold.
You can’t gift a token. That’s not an option unfortunately.
Players can’t trade tokens. Someone needs to give you gold and then you buy the token and it becomes BOA.
Once you have the token, you can hold onto it or trade it back to Blizzard. When you “spend” it you choose whether you want it to apply to game time or Battlenet balance.
Just to clarify this part, a token from the AH can only be turned into game time or converted into battle.net balance (not supported in all player countries). They cannot be put back on the AH again.
Only the token purchased for money can be put on the AH to sell for gold.
Yes, that’s a good point to clarify. My first foray into buying tokens ended with me having a bag full that I had hoped to flip when the prices rose…until the UI gave me a big red F a month later
The “holding” onto part is only referring to holding them in one’s bag. There’s a limit to how many can be purchased over a certain amount of time. If you need game time, you can purchase a token from the character selection screen and it will buy a token using all the gold across all of your characters.
I’m not sure what happens if you have a token in your bags because you won’t be able to log in and use it. I have heard of players ticketing for a day or so of gametime to get into their account and use a token in their inventory.
OK, so the question then can be rephrased to something like this:
Is it a violation in any way to trade gold on a Classic character to another Classic character in exchange for gold on a Retail character to be given to gold on another Retail character?
It won’t be a violation in any way but it will be risky and expensive putting it outside the realm of realism/pragmatism.
It will be an unsupported activity that Blizzard won’t resolve when/if the player is scammed. It is also going to be something like $1,000 dollars worth of gold.
Nope, I’ll believe you. I just never knew and couldn’t find anything explaining it. I only knew that a player will get an option to buy a token if they don’t have game time.
If you’re saying a player can use a token from one’s inventory that’s good enough for me! Thanks for confirming.
y financial advice.
