I heard there’s a mount in the game called Reins of the Mighty-Caravan-Brutosaur. It cost 5 million gold! If I had 5 million gold, I’d rather keep the gold and tell people how much gold I’ve got!
How many people actually have 5 million gold anyway?
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its a money sink mount to curb the inflation. only a small percentage of people are/were actually able to buy the mount. but those who do, are considerably richer than the average joe anyways. i doubt it made a big dent in their wallet, at least for the most of them.
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the way i look at it is that blizzard noticed that players during WoD and Legion had been making a lot of gold with no effort at at all from the mission tables, im talking about gold cap millions
and with that gold players didnt even feel the need to buy subscription with real money and could just buy a token every month since they are setting with millions of gold and has nothing to spend it on
so to solve this issue blizzard started making unique costly mounts so the players start spending that gold they made, and than they start subscribing with real money
this is how I see it
people paying for tokens with gold isnt the issue though.
SOMEONE has to pay for the tokens with real money and that price tag is more expensive than the average subscription.
1 token = 20€, monthly subscription is like half of that. i d reckon they make a considerable amount of money, if not more, from people buying tokens instead of subscriptions.
Most of the people who played during WoD have amassed a huge amount of gold thanks to the Garrison gold missions, etc. Same thing happened in Legion too. The Brutosaur mount was introduced as a useful gold sink mount, which tends to happen between expansions. Regular gold sink mounts are a thing every new expansion like Legion spider. But gold sink mounts that are actually useful, are a rarity. Like the vendor Mammoth in wotlk or the transmog Yak in Pandaria, etc. All of them were expensive in their respective expansion.
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yeah…yet none of them got removed. 
its so annoying, really.
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they for sure making more money from tokens than they make from a new expansion release, thats true
but what im talking about is there are players who buy tokens with real money and there are players how buy them from the AH with gold to extend sub time without having to pay with real money, and as we know how most companies are greedy now a days, they need most of players to pay with real money not just get to buy a token that easily and get to play the game
they want you to buy them with gold but not when players could just buy them as easily
yeah, but if this would be such a huge issue for blizzard, they would have taken tokens out of the game or made inegible for game time immediately if it made them lose money in any shape or form.
i suppose they only look at the outcome and not how every individual player pays for things. do they make profit at the end of the day? if yes, then they dont care if someone pays a sub or not if there are people who buy 2-3 tokens a month with real money which is far more than any subscription would be.
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This guy must be a troll or living in a cave…
they for sure make profit out of this and removing the tokens will hurt them than solving the issue
but as we all have noticed their recent behaviors towards making money-grabbing ways, they see that they could even make more profit out if this if they could give the players a very costly snack to spend their gold on
well yes, thats the point and not that they want people to pay for subscription. but i see where you were coming from earlier.
at the end of legion i ve met someone in a guild i was in who openly admitted to have botted in wod and beginning of legion. (yes botted, not multiboxed, maybe that too but who knows) she was sitting on 20m gold at the end of legion. twenty.million.gold. how crazy is that? now imagine someone building up on that wealth throughout the expansions by selling boosts n stuff on the ah. she might be an extreme example but i bet she isnt alone out there.
20m gold, if she would spend all money on tokens and take the current price of a token of approximately 200k to make things easier (before classic tokens were even cheaper), thats 100 tokens which translates to 2000€.
2000€. thats the equivalent of a yearly subscription of 16 people if they choose the 6month sub. thats really sickening. 
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i mean yes that’s crazy, a player with 20 million gold could play the game for multiple expansions time, without having to pay for a single sub aside from buying the expansion
I totally understand that blizzard has to make stuff like this to make those types of players spend their gold
but i had to answer OP’s question for what I think they are doing stuff like this nonetheless
You heard right. It’s only been out for a year so it’s still a secret too.
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