Hey.
On launch of the token it was at 20k… which i thought was too low for 20 eurro now it is below 8k.
Why pay 20 euro for as little as 7500 gold?
Feels like token did not work out as intended
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People who RMT’ed before, will continue to RMT, and people who were too afraid to RMT will be buying tokens. They don’t really care if it mitigated RMT or not, they are profiting either way
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If token was actually costing Blizzard money to keep in the game they might have considered removing it due to poor performance. Too bad it’s a free money maker for them.
I hope the price drops so low no one will buy them.
I’m shocked any one would even buy them atm.
But i guess the reason they are this low is because few people buy them, thus the “flop” part
The price is low because the amount of people using real money to buy tokens is more than the people using gold to buy tokens from AH, simple as that. Which shouldn’t surprise anybody, given how most players these days are raidloggers.
Not to mention that you don’t really need more than 12 tokens a year for your account, while you certainly can need more than that amount in gold if you do GDKPs and such to gear up.
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I don’t understand how you came to this conclusion. It’s the opposite.
It means the demand for gold is so high through the token system, that the value of gold has increased a lot and Blizzard makes a lot of money through through tokens.
Once people stop paying, the gold amount will increase.
Thats the thing though, the way the price drops is that more people are buying them for € then people who want to buy them for gold.
It’s actually the opposite. So many people buy tokens that the token keeps dropping in gold value because compared to that not enough people with gold want tokens…
Yeah, these systems are bad.
Just look at the 3rd party and harcap it there 
But i guess that would put any effort on blizzard, so can’t expect that
At that point you’re either printing new gold (which is not what the token is supposed to do) or selling a token will take 2 weeks.
3rd party will always be significantly cheaper then the token. Nobody would buy third party if it was the same, since third party buying is risky and buying the token is risk free.
The token system is printing new gold tho.
You will always get your gold within 2-12 hrs no matter if someone buys it or not
Also, people can buy your token for cheaper or more expensive, but you will always get the gold you posted it for
It’s literally not. Every token you buy and put on the auction house, when it sells, that gold comes from a player that spent it on that token. It’s cross region, but that gold has to exist first.
Thats why the value fluctuates. If nobody is buying at 8500g, the pricing algorhitm will lower it until the tokens sell again, and the algorhitm is targeting around 2-24 hours of sale time.
You will always get gold no matter if it is sold or not.
Also, people can buy your token for cheaper or more expensive, but you will always get the gold you posted it for
Thats not true, and it even warns you of that when you create the token auction. It says “estimated sale value” and has a big warning triangle saying the value fluctuates on sale.
It is tho.
But i don’t care enough to find the articles where this was stated, But it has been reported by both users and blizzard.
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Originally, when Tokens were first added to retail they were actually sold to players only. But this resulted in some Tokens sitting on the AH for weeks waiting for their turn to sell, which made whales angry. At that point, receiving the gold you purchased from botters within 2 hours after purchase was a much better option so Blizzard changed it and added the guarantee of sale.
Of course, Blizz is getting DDOSd right now, so no bnet links will work.
From WoWhead:
“You are sent the amount of gold promised to you in the confirmation window. If the price of the token has gone up or down since you listed it, that does not affect the amount of gold you will get.”
From NA WoW website:
“You will always receive the gold amount quoted to you at the time you place a Token up for sale, regardless of what the current price is when the item actually sells.”
People who want to buy gold will have to pay more… Seems like low prices are a win for Blizz
Good thing im here
https://web.archive.org/web/20150317013633/http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/18141101/introducing-the-wow-token-3-2-2015
“Q: How much gold will I receive when I sell a WoW Token?
A: The gold value of a Token will be determined dynamically based on supply and demand. When you put a Token up for sale, you’ll be quoted the amount of gold you’ll receive upon a successful sale. If you then decide to place the Token up for sale, that amount is locked in, and the gold will be sent to your mailbox after another player purchases your Token.”
“Q: What happens if the price quoted to me is different from what the Token actually sells for?
A: You will always receive the gold amount quoted to you at the time you place a Token up for sale, regardless of what the current price is when the item actually sells.”
There you go exactly what is needed to beat back the people who insist that the token works as they want it to
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Thanks, I have no clue why the person above tried to argue this.
The guy above linked the stuff now.
I don’t know why you were so hard pressed to disagree before tbh
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