Hi, I wonder will wow token price will drop? I’m new to the game and whole token system and how the prices work. What I’ve observed so far is that the price is always increasing.
So my question is, will the price ever drop? if not, does it have a max limit or the price is always increasing until it reaches a certain point?
By the time I’m writing this topic the price is 230,000 ( which was 30k less in 5 days ago! )
Depends on the players afaik
I wouldn’t expect it to drop anytime soon.
But there’s really no reliable way to give you a solid answer on this. It’s driven by supply & demand.
9.1 hit the PTR, that’s probably going to keep the tokens at a steady incline. And when 9.1 hits it’ll probably rise if anything, and then it’ll probably drop a few months into 9.1
From my observations , when few ppl are playing the price increases when a lot are playing it reaches around 185k .
The token works on a supply and demand system. If there are more people willing to buy tokens with in-game gold than there are people willing to buy tokens with IRL money to sell the token price will always increase.
In theory it can rise up as high as it wants. In reality it all depends on the current economy in the game. If there are easy ways of printing gold in games( gold printing means getting gold out of the game such as vendoring items,mission tables, quest rewards etc) and no big gold sinks(gold sinks refer only to gold that is being removed from the game not traded to another player such as repair costs,mounts,bmah,the % from the ah cut etc,buying flasks ,legendaries or items from the ah does not remove gold beside the 5% cut) the token price will steadily increase.
It can increase in small bursts when there are stuff announced to be bought on the bnet launcher,blizzcon ticket,mounts,aniversary ,new game etc.
It will stop when the cost is to high to be paid with in-game gold(for the time spent earning that gold) and that’s when the people selling the tokens will be more than the ones buying so the price will drop again until it fixes itself.
Supply and demand pretty much.
Which implies less people are spending cash on tokens…
So much for the idea that boosting causes token sales?
(I might sell one when they hit 300k. Wouldn’t mind a bit more gold sloshing around, but they were offensively cheap last I was considering it.)
It can imply more than that,more specifically it implies also that the number of people that can afford the token price on a regular basis has increased heavily (from whatever reasons one being boosting).
I’l give 1 scenario which i think people refer to when they say that boosting causes token sales. You have 100 players all with even spread gold bellow 200 k and cannot afford any token. Now you introduce boosting and of those 100 players 20 are boosting and taking all the gold from the other 80(and giving them services back in return).Those 20 are now token buyers(not all generally people spend gold on oter stuff such as consumables in reality more like 10 will spend it purely on tokens the rest will buy mounts or consumables to rotate the gold back).From the other 80 some want more of these services but they don’t know or are too bored to farm gold so they buy tokens with irl money to be able to afford boosts.
This mostly works because the time spent to print with gold the current token price(raw gold which is important) is higher than the time spent working IRL to afford the gold by a huge margin.
I think it’ll drop significantly slightly before 9.1 is released.
Yes !
Well,those who wanted boost got it by now … so yeah boosting indeed drive token sales to some extent.
We will see token gold value drop again when new aoc/ksm season starts and people start spending cash on tokens again.
Let’s put it this way: when there is a huge influx of returning players, the token gold value drops, because there are more people likely to spend euros to buy the token. When there’s a mid season drop in player activity, the token price likely increases. Right now, we’re in a mid season drop in activity.
Also ,SL seems to be gold inflation expansion with mission table and callings ,not as much as wod and legion were, but still inflates.
That could be a sign that those prepared to buy Tokens may not have as much disposable income to use on Tokens… pandemic economics fallout.
Tbh there might be some truth to that…
Yeah, but we’ve had 13 months of pandemic now, and this observation of token price is only recent 
UK* is only just starting to come out of another lockdown… so maybe people have started diverting finances to stuff like holiday planning, etc. now that weather’s getting better.
* Dunno about other countries.
That make sense. I also think that the boosting system ruins the whole game experience and Blizz should not allow it. I personally enjoy playing wow only because of the whole struggle of doing Mythic+ and Raids and struggling with the game mechanics to reach the end game. I think the journey is what makes the gaming experience fun. But unfortunately Boosting is in favor of Blizz and many people don’t play for fun anymore.
Also you really educate.
Makes sense to me that miserable weather season means people get stuck inside, bored & doing stuff in a game that they may not ordinarily do… if you’re sitting on a Christmas Bonus & looking for summat to do in WoW, a boost would make sense to spend a few £ on.
I would advise to try and understand boosting at all the levels before making judgement. Boosting has been in vanilla since forever but it has been the core heart of the game and without alot of people admiting boosting is what made vanilla fun.
Now maybe you don’t necesarily understand what im referring to or are missunderstanding but boosting means just that ,helping someone that is not suppose to earn something actually earn it. That’s pretty much the base for vanilla raiding you needed 20 competent raiders the other 20 could be slackers,guilds are formed on base of friendship where you help your more challenged friends that do not posses the ability to finish certain content see it and earn that achievement.
It’s still boosting most people don’t see it that way cause they don’t pay gold for it but why should your friend be allowed to be boosted to mythic ce or e-girls for that matter in guilds but a guy thats willing to pay and actually move the economy is not?
I think it has become degenarate with the addition of Token because people now use IRL resources to get boosted in game,i am honestly impresed and have always had no issues with goblins that had no skills in raiding or pvp but had titles,ce,mounts just because they were skilled in gold making and then they used that resource to fulfil their desires. It kinda replicates irl and thats what an mmorpg should be like.
With the addition of the token more and more people use their financial state outside of the game to influence their in game state,this is what i fiind awfull,yes gold selling existed before but it was shady and the threat of losing your account to xin-ping seller95 would stop alot from doing so.
It might be because my lack of experience about WoW, So if I’m not mistaking, Everyone possess some sort of power to get to the end of their favorite game. whether it’s IRL money, grinding in game gold or having the actual gaming skills.
I see the point now.
Boosting is a result of player mentality and will never go away as long as there are rewards locked behind content. There is a % of players in the game that aren’t actually playing the game at all, they are getting boosted 100% of time for everything and they cash out for it with irl money.
These players are loyal customers to blizzard, and they will never get banned, nor the boosting will be prohibited. Blizzard accepted that this is just one of the things present in the playerbase, and tries to enable them as much as possible without going over the line of full out supporting them.
I wish Blizzard just went official with boosting and allowed for specific advertisement/boosting platform in the game where people could buy such service, like a boosting AH, and just remove them from chat and LFG, but this is unlikely to happen.
Yeah, I think it’s an indirect way of selling a certain achievement or item, instead they could just put in the shop and people buy them directly. Even Blizz knows that it’s not a good thing for the reputation of their company. in my opinion just how IRL has it’s hierarchy and certain people have or don’t have certain things, same thing has to be applied in game. and I think it’s more MMORPG and gives players more competitive sense. However things similar to boosting in WoW also exist IRL.