So Blizzard randomly decided to patch the price for Chronoboons—used to be 10g from the vendor, now suddenly it’s 1g. Let me explain how this absolutely wrecked me:
I’ve been running a small side hustle, buying Chronoboons for 10g and selling them for 11-12g to lazy players. Nothing crazy, but it was consistent gold-making. Now, I’ve got about 120 Chronoboons sitting in my inventory, and with this change, Blizzard has effectively obliterated over 1,000 gold in value.
Who thought this was a good idea? No heads-up, no consideration for players who stockpiled items in good faith. This is exactly why the community gets so frustrated—arbitrary changes that destroy player effort without warning.
This wasn’t just a “gold nerf”; it was Blizzard flipping a switch and tanking an entire market overnight. I’ve spent hours building up this stockpile with other professions, only for it to become worthless because someone at Blizzard apparently woke up and decided it was time to ruin the day of anyone trying to trade Chronoboons.
What’s the logic here? Were Chronoboons somehow game-breaking at 10g? Did this tiny vendor price adjustment really need to happen without giving the community a chance to react?
I’m beyond furious right now. Thanks for nothing, Blizzard.
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Wait, they did this to era? That must have been yet another mistake then…
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why would you ever assume the price of a good would remain constant
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Maybe … maybe not.
Let’s play with the thought that Anniversary characters gets to migrate to Era once the Classic phase is over, then that would not be possible if boons was priced differently.
I don’t think Blizzard thought that far, but at least a transfer to Era is now still an option.
It would ofc be better if Blizzard didn’t change the price in the first place and just removed the SOD Boons as they started out with, but I highly doubt any people at Blizzard plays Classic or have any feeling with the game. It is really sad.
Because it is a constant vendor price?
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obviously it is not. it’s a good change for everyone except you. whining about your own foolish greed just makes you look like a clown
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lol, greed. Bought them for 10, sold them for 11g. So one gold profit. But through this change => more than 1k g damage. Greed, ah yes. You are so off…
the damage mitigated on the rest of the population vastly outweighs your self inflicted 1k
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Dude sorry but this is on you. It is no different than trying to do a similiar thing in AH and have an item drop in price. Also, that they would lower the price at some point was kind of expected.
Also, rofl that this is what you invested in, of all the things you could invest in, chronoboon was the thing. That to me is hilarious.
All you can do is learn from it and move on.
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There’s a huge difference between fluctuating raw material prices, driven by player demand, and static vendor prices, which are expected to stay consistent. Vendor prices serve as a fixed baseline, and players rely on them for stable trading strategies.
By changing the Chronoboon price without warning, Blizzard disrupted this stability and blindsided those of us who built strategies around it. If they had announced the change, I wouldn’t have stockpiled as much last week—something I’ve been doing consistently for months.
Chronoboon price wasnt expected to stay fixed in my mind, I anticipated they would lower it at some point, unkown when. That it would forever be the same was an assumption in your mind. Vendor prices could change aswell, there is really nothing that says “vendor prices will never change”.
I think investing so much into chronoboon was a mistake on your part and not something blizzard is responsible for.
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Look at all the social justice warriors in this thread 
Who are guys fooling? We have all our method of making some gold, and many of them are the buy cheap-sell high methods (oldest trade method in the world). Blizzard handling of these boons have been abysmal and there’s no denying that. From the mistake itself which it’s already unreal, to the 24 hours wait to fix the problem, to then fix it with a band-aid in less than 10 min.
They also misled big time the entire player base by officially announcing that those boons would be completely useless first, and then changing their minds and making them tradable withe era boons (this after many players got rid of those boons cause they said would have been uselss).
Stop symping so hard for Blizzard. Their handling of the BGs was indie-company level.
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i think the handling of sod chronoboons was a disaster. they should have just removed them from the game and subtracted 9g from every missing chronoboon on the exploiters.
however the nerf from 10g to 1g i consider a separate change and it’s good for everyone
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This was 100% a knee jerk reaction by blizzard in hopes to salvage the situation, in other words not planned - screwing people over like OP
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Blizzars is responsible for all the cross-server messiness that happened. However blizzard is not responsible for players gold who stockpiled chronoboon hoping to sell for profit. It is not the same thing having stockpiled a resource in ambition to selling for profit and not being able to anymore, and cross server stuff bleeding into eachother.
Again: For me, this situation has been incredibly frustrating. I’ve spent months reselling Chronoboons, assuming vendor prices were stable. Just last week, I bought a larger stockpile, expecting steady profits, only for Blizzard to slash the price to 1g without warning—wiping out over 1,000 gold in value. It feels like my efforts were invalidated overnight.
What is my point here:
The real issue isn’t just the price drop; it’s Blizzard’s lack of communication. Vendor prices are seen as constants, unlike raw materials, and changing them without notice blindsides players. A simple announcement could’ve avoided this frustration. Better transparency could go a long way in preventing this kind of avoidable disruption.
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Hey Calen, I 100% agree with you. Chronoboons have, since the end of Classic and all throughout Era remained at a constant price. To change it like this is just a testament to how incredibly lazy the Dev team is. There is no other way around it.
Also, I am kind of in AWE of all the commenters blaming you for this, or the tone used. The level of toxicity from the community is out of the charts. These people have no empathy. Sad.
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I totally understand it is incredible frustrating and very dissapointing. It would have been much better if they had announced it beforehand lets say when they released patch notes for phase 3 or something. At the same time investing is always a risk and unforseen things can happen no matter how safe it seems.
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The change to the chronoboon price seems to have leaked over from their attempt to mitigate the recent unfortunate events on the anniversary servers. I’m rather unimpressed they allowed this to happen to era without notice. It doesn’t affect me in any big way, but chronoboons as a gold sink is very needed in the era economy.
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Hello my friend,
It was not announced, because it was not intentional. The chronoboon thing leaked just like MoS, new UI and some other stuff. What Blizzard did was to “fix” it by leaving the price, because they can’t risk to admit it.
Now they are trying to play again the “we actually intended this”. Remember MoS? They said that it was intentional, but lots of people are salty and they will revert it.
Nobody believes them anymore
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