I want D4
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Lol yeah right. With now much gold is out there in classic it would decimate their revenue.
You would have thousands of people refunding their game and spending a super messily portion of a single gdkp bucket to buy the game. $100 version for what… 55k gold? Literally my entire guild could buy that no issue. Hundreds of thousands of gold we spend on a single gdkp item.
Just don’t be poor and buy it lol
I’m gonna get it with or without the conversion I’d just like the option of not spending actual money… Thought that was obvious.
Most people in my guild are at or near gold cap.
We definitely arent alone lol. Blizzard would lose millions of dollars on that.
You can, though its kind of a pain. You can trade gold with someone on retail (through the WoWMarket discord), then buy a retail token and convert it to bnet balance. This has been allowed since the start of Classic wow. If the other person scams you and takes your gold, Blizzard won’t refund you, but they will action them.
Umh… they’d actually make more this way. For every token bought with gold, 1 was bought with real money. They’d get $5 more for every $15 spent as converted bnet balance since it’s $20 for 1 token.
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They’d significantly prefer you only get gametime.
In the normal run it would make sense but people have so much gold in wotlk they would bleed cash. Price of token would skyrocket to like 30k tho.
It would only expand their revenue. Tokens cost 20 dollars…WTF you smoking.
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This makes no sense as Blizzard still gets the money.
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Botters are rooting for you, they like battle net balance too.
I think people forget that the token still costed someone $20.
So if you could trade in a token for $15 credit you would of needed say 5 tokens to add $75 to your bnet to buy Diablo 4.
Those 5 tokens didn’t appear out of thin air tho, people bought them and those 5 tokens cost $100.
So you got $75 for wow gold but Blizzard got $100 out of the deal.
That same game actually ended up costing $100 instead of $75.
Blizzard makes $5 per token no matter the usage.
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Extra $5, so 25% mark up, that is ignoring tokens or credits that go unspent.
by making wow token convert into balance after you buy it with gold, which means allowing gold to turn into real cash will have some effects…such as!
1st many players will use their gold to buy tokens to convert into balance “so they can buy games for gold and that’s less money to blizzard”
2nd Token from shop will convert to MUCH more gold which will makes gold buyers tend to buy less tokens and that’s less money to blizzard again!
3rd not to mention that Bots will swam the game more than ever before.
so there is very low chance that blizzard would allow classic gold to turn into balance.
edit: @2nd point, because if more people buy tokens from auction house, the rate will sky high and tokens can reach +20k.
It is more money for blizzard not less.
The $20 token converts to $15 Bnet balance.
Someone spent $20 for you to have $15…
How do y’all not get this?? Tokens don’t appear out of thin air
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Indeed. There is a market wow discord. There are people who exchange gold. do NOT engage in RMT. Just don’t.
Make sure to screen capture/record it all. Screenshot chat logs and discord chats. Keep record of all of your activities.
I’ve exchanged whatever I had left on Retail to Wrath. I have all footage and screenshots saved on a separate drive. I ain’t risking earning a ban for something stupid for my accounts that’ve eaten up years of my life.
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The gold buyer doesn’t understand basic math don’t waste the energy
If I could convert classic gold to Bnet balance I’d never have to buy another Blizzard game again.
True, but they didn’t just arbitrarily decide not to allow it in classic when you can do it in retail. There has to be a compelling reason, and with Blizzard that reason is almost always $$$.
While they want people to be buying tokens with $$, they don’t really want people buying tokens for gold. Its necessary to control inflation but ultimately that part is a net loss for Blizzard.
If they believe the Classic economy is already excessively inflated, then creating a way for people to convert almost “useless” currency infinitely into a resource works strongly against them.
In short, they always want to keep demand for tokens in the shop high, but demand for tokens on the AH low, and this would only increase AH demand.
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well…
but if tokens from AH doesn’t convert for blizzard balance, that means blizzard will keep the whole 20$ as they will not have to give anyone 15$
and if people want to buy items from shop then they will need to pay money not gold.
Edit: also mentioning this again taken from 1 of my posts:
"one day before blizzard announce tokens, the rate of selling gold was 1$ per 850g
then blizzard did add tokens and for the first token been added on AH blizzard decided to set the price for 10,000k and tbh everyone should question this “the first token been added to AH, why did blizzard put it for 10k only? why not 20k or 50k? i mean if it’s the only token in AH then the base price is something only getting decided by blizzard”
so this translate to "Blizzard decided to put the base value of gold selling to be 20$ for 10k gold which means 1$ = 500g, and then as more tokens being added in the AH the less rate it goes, and now currently 1$ =250g
but to answer the question about “why did blizzard aim for such rate in the first place?” because if blizzard did add the first ever token for 100k gold, even if tons of people bought many tokens to sell, you could still get tons of gold without having to buy many tokens therefore they won’t be able to sell many tokens as they planed “and remember each token they sell means they get 7$ out of thin air” So in simple words they didn’t care at all about market or what so ever they just wanted to milk money."
That token is still $20.
So even converting it to a sub that sub was only $15.
They made $5.
i did edit my last post if you missed that, and they only wanna earn as much as they can and that’s it, they never care if some people keep adding subs via tokens for now, the goal is to sell tons of tokens and keep the whole 20$ without refunding.