And Blizzard obviously doesn’t want to take the risk. Maybe open a ticket and ask why. You’ll find no better answers here.
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there isn’t any risk at putting it on the store for a euro price but you clearly won’t understand that anyway. they’re asking blizzard not to you. please take your arrogant , ignorant and discriminative thoughts with you while leaving this thread.
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I take my thoughts on the forum as you do.
And there is no discrimination going on. Just a business decision.
stop acting like a victim ;s u arent for not being able to buy in game gold…
Lol, seriously dude???. Cringe for you. Maybe you should learn simple economics and how trading works in the world.
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Regardless of the reasoning behind it.
WoW is just a commercial, entertainment product. So Blizz is free to offer their products in any country they wish…same as they are also free NOT to offer their products in a country if they so wish.
Its not food or essential medicine, where it should be available in both in USA, and same as any African country.
So Blizz is NOT mandated by some human rights law that they need to offer their digital video game or its services in all countries no matter what.
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If gold shouldn’t be part of the gameplay loop, why have it at all?
We really need to stop with the tokens thing. And yes, I’m guilty - it’s hard not to buy gold when the “GDP” is inflated due to everyone affording more due to buying gold. It ain’t good!
Did you slept during economy classes?
Blizzard charging 20e means that Blizzard will get 20e. How much is that in Liras, is problem of the citizens of Turkiye and the banks which are doing conversion, not Blizzard’s problem.
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You wish it was that easy. I haven’t really slept during Economy, but I guess you underestimate the problem here.
Turkey had a 15% currency fluctuation on some days (days, hours, not months). So, let’s say you buy a token for currency and you get a token worth 20€. You pay via Paypal that tries to use the current worth of that currency.
On the same day that currency loses or gains 15% of it’s worth. So does everything bound to that transaction (VAT or BITT).
The exchange rate isn’t a problem under normal circumstances, but when your currency is dropping 10-15% on a daily basis it becomes a risk for companies doing trade.
Blizzard doesn’t receive those 20€ the moment you buy your token. They receive a debt from the Bank that handles the transaction at a certain date.
That’s a translation risk and a transaction risk. And for translation risks there is no safety guard. You either calculate those or avoid them.
Blizzard wants to avoid them. As soon as the Turkish lira is back in a safe spot they will sell tokens again.
In better wording:
Companies with Translation Risk
Multinational corporations that have international offices have the greatest exposure to translation risk. However, even companies that don’t have offices overseas but sell products internationally are exposed to translation risk. If a company earns revenue in a foreign country, it must convert that revenue into the company’s home or local currency when it reports its financials at the end of the quarter.
If exchange rates have fluctuated by a large amount, this could lead to significant changes in the value of the foreign asset or income stream. This exchange rate or wild fluctuations create risk for the company because it can be challenging to forecast how much exchange rates are going to move relative to each other.
The greater the proportion of a company’s assets, liabilities, or equities denominated in a foreign currency, the greater the company’s translation risk. Translation risk is also sometimes referred to as translation exposure
Indeed.
However, the topic of this thread is for token to go in euros.
Sure, but if you don’t pay in Euro or Dollar the problem exists for Blizzard. Similar problem Ukraine had some years ago when Paypal refused to accept their currency because of “lack of stability” and possible loss.
Thank you again for not coming up with a solution!
Currently I have 1600 gold. Im not able to buy even consumables……
After work two-three hours of dungeon/raid. Dont have time blizz!
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Who Said it is mandatory to sell us tokens in euro currency? Blizzard is just a company and people like you and me runs this company. And running big companies like this might be very complicated and things can be overlooked. So we just wish ( or remind) Blizzard can sell tokens for euro currency for us(turks) and people who doesnt have time to farm gold can buy tokens to sell it for gold instead of paying 3 rd party illegal websites. Thats all we wish.
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So according to this companies should stop selling to Turkey. But, you are going to be suprised, none of are! We have Amazon( you can order from germany or any other country) , aliexpress, steam vs vs… All of them are selling to Turkey, they never stop. Moreover, they are actually selling a “product” which means first they buy the product from manufacturer and sell it to you , so they can lose money. However, in this case selling token in euro currency in turkey wont do anyharm to blizzard because tokens are imaginary objects that blizzard creates. There is no operation cost to create them and selling them but only income. Yes income might be not stable on crisis days ( only occurred 2-3 days in last year) but income is income. Its better than nothing. Besides selling tokens to every country except Turkey is not fair.
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Well it is totally not fair!
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not all vote for him, you cant blame the whole of Turkey for that.
I dont get this issue where people have to blame the whole nation for something stupid
beleive or not i have a polish gamer i met online saying he doesnt want to be friends with me because the ottomans had some beef with Poland 200 years ago
like, ok… but what does that have to do with ME? im not even from Turkey. even if i was, the logic is weird
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