Token price differences

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I was looking at buying D4 with wow gold and I just thought it was quite interesting how you could get things significantly cheaper in the US.

In the EU the wow token costs ~320k which would give me £10. D4 deluxe edition costs £80 and so would cost just over 2.5M gold over here.

In the US the wow token costs ~205k which gives them $15. D4 deluxe digital costs $90 and so would cost just over 1.2M gold over there.

I have 2M gold and so basically I’m salty I could easily afford it over there but cannot over here.

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They buy more ‘gold’ than we do.

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Also they are paying less in cash terms.

£80 is 97US and they only pay 90.

y is the eu subsidising the usa blizz!?

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Europeans are poor by comparison, and also have more leisure time (on average). They’d rather farm gold than pay with IRL currency.

On the bright side, buying tokens with IRL currency to make gold is much better on EU :slight_smile:

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It is different because the gold is a different “currency”. The in game economy is way different is size and how gold moves around.

Well, if you were over there, chances are that you would have less than 2m gold.

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Conversely my sub is also cheaper than theirs. $15 is ~£12 but the sub is £10. I think it’s the disparity of the initial buy in which gets me, £60 for the base game (not the digital version) is quite a bit.

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Wait until we get 10.1, then the you will have a better deal.

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The answer is simple, most people in EU, me included, won’t pay 20 euro for 200k gold. As there are no free meals in this world, if you want me to pay for your D4 copy you better give me more gold per token.

Not my fault Americans value their 20 USD at around 200k gold.

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I keep forgetting there are countries without euros in Europe

I would argue more players come from euro countries though, in which case 1€ = 1,06USD

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I dont think europeans are poor compared to america.

High token prices, just means that more people buy them, u have to accept due to current climate most russians are using tokens to keep their subs.

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How does wow gold can help to buy d4? Can someone elaborate?

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The US token always cost half as much as the EU since it was introduced. There’s no black magic here, just as people pointed out, the disparity between sellers and buyers compared to the US.

If blizz were to make a statistic you’d see that most token sellers are in western EU countries while the buyers are in the east. And overall there’s more buyers here relatively to sellers than in the US.

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You buy a wow token on the AH for ingame gold, around 320k at the moment, you then have two options use the token for 30 days game time or add a set amount to your battle net balance, in the UK £10.

Do that enough times and you can then use your battle net balance to buy D4, for the base game I would need 6 tokens worth or around 1.8 million gold.

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The US price does not include Tax, whereas the EU price does.

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Cost of Living

To make this easier to understand you need to “reverse” the roles: the product is the currency and the currency is the product.

Let’s say here in the EU with a bar of soap you can buy £80 and in the US, with the same bar of soap, you can buy 90$.

In the EU we’re getting more for the bar of soap because Cost of Living is higher here.

Make sense?

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the US is a developing third world country where most ppl have to work 2-3 jobs not to be homeless, we can help them out.

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have never pay’d whit real money i alway’s just farm the gold i need, i guess it is a thing for the younger generation who want everithing right now .

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I just bought token from AH and there is no option to convert into battle. net balance.

It only gives 30 days game time.

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Some countries do not have the option to convert it.

I know that India for example is one such country.

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Damm - that back fired.