What happened that over a few days it increased from 300k to 390+k? What the hay?
Edit: over 1 day actually lol
2 Likes
Wrong forum section.
Prepurchase became available so people cashed in their gold for tokens to buy it.
2 Likes
you think it’s gonna drop lol? it’s kinda steep to pay 400k a month for sub
give it a week
Yeah give it a week or two. Now that the gold is getting higher people who want gold will sell tokens so it will drop again and even out.
2 Likes
luckily i bought one before the price rose so I can wait but it’s silly how there is zero blizzard’s control over the price >.>
Well I think it’s good that they dont control it and let the market decide.
Otherwise they would probably increase the gold price when they need to up their quarterly numbers.
If the gold price is too low nobody will pay 20 euro to sell them causing the supply to dry up.
2 Likes
but did you compare token price between regions… US get cheapest tokens and China - the most expensive. currently EU got above Taiwan too…
Well I guess that means US sell more tokens.
Some nations in the EU dont offer great wages so buying gold might not be possible for them and with the sub price being as high as it is its probably more common to trade gold for game time.
And china, well they were known for selling gold. I’m sure they have plenty of bots farming gold to trade for tokens.
Thats what a market is. You’re completely ignoring the other side of the transaction which is arguably more important for Blizzard: People with RL cash are getting a lot more gold per dollar making it more attractive.
3 Likes
While people buying expansion for gold i milked in some tokens instead just to feel good about having more gold 
3 Likes
These token increases happen every time Blizzard release something new on the store, a pet, a game, a presell of an expansion. And just that always increases when the new thing is announced it also always decrease one or two days later, in fact, if you check the token price it has already reached a peak so probably this is the better time to earn gold with the token because soon with will start to drop to the price it has two days ago.
Its been steadily rising for the last week or so, ever since the new CoD became available to pre-purchase, now with Dragonflight AND the summer sale on services its going to climb for a while yet.
I think Blizz released a new game or expansion.
And DF preorders/wotlk thingies.
It sucks I know. And I am just guessint UwU
I’m actually comparing it with US token price which is usually more than half cheaper than EU token price. If Blizzard is fine with US token price I don’t see why EU price is inflated so much.
eastern europe has a part to play with that
2 Likes
The US market typically spends more money on video games than the EU market, accounting for size.
And what keeps the price on WoW Tokens down is people buying them from the Online Shop.
We’re less inclined to do that here in the EU than they are in the US.
We’ll gladly spend our gold on WoW Tokens, but we’re less likely to spend our money on them. In the US they’re more happy to do both, evidently.
2 Likes
Gotta thank OP for the heads up. I got a token today and sold it for 390k, seems like the price is already down to 330k. Sure it might fluctuate a bit but at least I got me a good deal.
2 Likes
Because American are generally cash rich and time poor.
Europeans are generally time rich cash poor in comparison. (Think Eastern Europe where gold farming / boosting etc is a legit way of making RL$$$)
This is ofc a broad generalisation but its what drives the difference in token prices…
1 Like