If you tried to buy a WoW Token today then you are probably surprised why the price just skyrocketed, the answer is here
In order to preserve the integrity of the game and provide a better token market to players, with an update to World of Warcraft on Tuesday, November 21, we will enable the following restriction in this region.
• Players will no longer be allowed to purchase a WoW Token from the Auction House or the in-game Shop for gold if they have not spent real money to purchase and consume at least 30 days of game time (a “Time Limited License”) since 2017.
This does not affect the consumption of existing WoW Tokens, however, game time provided by the consumption of a WoW Token does not count toward the qualification to purchase a WoW Token for gold.
After November 21, 2023, any player who cannot purchase a WoW Token for gold in-game will need to first purchase and consume at least 30 days of game time for real money. This can be done on any World of Warcraft account across the player’s Battle.net account to qualify.
Thank you.
Any real player should be ok and won’t have any problems with this, but right now, every single bot account will buy game time with gold and that makes the demand extremely high.
My advice is just wait until the demand dies down and what probably will happen is a really big correction in the 21st/22nd.
I don’t recommend buying any Token for more than 7K/7.5K anyways.
B U T, if the price keeps going up it could reach a point where buying a Token to sell it en the AH for 13k/14K its not a bad move at all, but its a risk.
My guess is that some of the owners of the big botting networks reached out an olive branch to Blizzard, explained how the tokens were making a small dent in their profits and underlined it with an account of how much money their networks regularly pump into Blizzard’s coffers.
Blizzard listened, agreed, and subsequently made these changes to please their “VIP customers.”
This is an anti botting measure but to actually buy a token at present you need an active account for the first one. Trial accounts cannot use the AH, trade or use the mail.
If you paid for something they have the transaction details. If a bot network buys for example 20 new licenses and then buys 1-month sub or 2-month game time to pump gold for the game time it’s way easier for Blizzard to link the game accounts to one given bank/PayPal account. It also increases the investment in a given bot account so if the account is banned quickly enough it won’t be profitable. And if it’s not banned then Blizzard got paid twice at least
In WOD they used to sell for like 24k gold so I bought years worth of them with gold, when I ran out I started paying with real money again anyway. These days the effort required to earn enough gold to buy them is nowhere near worth it, just pay it with real money.
Incredible how Blizzard combats bots accounts, but only those that haven’t been banned since 2017. Certainly Blizzard knows how to scare the ToS breakers.
No real ppl would buy a WoW token for 10k when the real price is around 7k, the only kind of accounts buying tokens right now would be sockpuppet acc using botted gold or someone who doesn’t understand why the token suddently is skyrocketting.
Thank you for informing us. Do you think the price will go down fast after 22? I have a plan to spend all my gold on tokens and move to SoD. Monofaction servers were enough for me for the rest of my existence.
