I am that man.
I still believe that the token market is “artificially” influenced by Blizzards algorithms and software to keep it at a fixed value and not surpass a certain amount of gold.
During BFA expansion, that’s more than 2 years, the token price never went up more than 200k gold (except a few days after 8.2.5 release). And let’s face it: BFA was the worst expansion. They lost half of their playerbase, yet the token price didn’t changed at all.
When the token was launched in 2016, it costed 28-30k gold. Since launch until July 2018 (just before BFA launch) the token had a constant ascending value (always going up in price, not lower) until it reached the max value of around 370k gold (that was during BFA prepatch).
Then, after BFA, the token stagnated at same average value for more than 2 years.
https://i.gyazo.com/b41e18e9967d2eec12083f6c29200291.jpg
If nobody finds this chart a bit odd…then i don’t know what to say.
And another thing i would like to argument would be especially the feb 2020 until today period: where Blizzard “recovered” many returning players due to lockdowns and corona, yet instead for the token price to rise (because people on lockdown don’t afford to spend money in games) and they would prefer to buy game-time with farmed gold (because they have plenty of time), it actually decreased. That doesn’t make sense.
lel can easly make 300k a week …
240k-160k is same value ?
Only at the begining of 8.2.5 patch the price went above 200k gold. That’s a small time window of 2 weeks. The rest of 1 year and 50 weeks, the price was at a 150-200k price range.
And the reason for the price increase was the new zones they added…patch 8.2.5 was like a mini-expansion.
And i didn’t said same value, i said same average value range (between 150-200k).
U need to do that 100 times to get same as one token, also that’s 400 world quests 
Indeed seems to have gone up and down this expansion. BfA launch until today:-
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It most certainly is and i agree with this.Back when it was announced it was going to be Game time/Balance,and the Legion announcement i began to suspect of this.There is an algoritham in place that has set max value for High/Low as the token can/will go it cant spike over those set values that blizzard deemed right.
The supply and demand is a bogus story.I dont want to mention when i was in legion the people from the two guilds where buying only tokens for gold,still have to meet the so called Whales.
Yes it wiggled , but huge drop was when Legion mission table stopped giving gold.
With raw gold nerf for SL,i would say it will drop even more .
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I don’t know. Don’t forget people still have huge and vast stockpiles of gold (not everyone but a certain portion of) and boosts are presumably here to stay for the time being.
With the now breach of TOS for keystroke broadcasting professions will hopefully yield a bit more gold, while at the same time meaning people who do not farm their own stuff will pay a bit more. The end result would be more people might dabble in buying tokens here and there from the AH for game time while others may find themselves buying them to sell just to afford things.
Overall though, while I think the price may come down a bit, I do not think it will crash and burn.
A far bigger sink for the tokens is people buying them for gametime. When SL launches there will be waaaay more people looking to buy tokens and therefore a bigger price.
Though there will also be more people looking to sell tokens to make gold at the start it should still rise in price like it has done for every launch or patch release.
Pft… they used to go for ~375k each.
The Legion Table “stop” didn’t changed nothing. With a average play time of 1-2h/day ( during BFA ), even a casual player could make 200k gold easy (by doing quests and farming old raids) to buy a token to maintain his subscription active. Not to mention hardcore farmers or boosters.
I can tell you from my own experience, as a “casual” player (with a average of 1-3h of play/day and sometimes i had even few days without playing at all) that i was farming 250-300k gold/month with ease. And half of my play time i was doing pet battles.
The price should not drop.
The only reason a token price in gold would drop, would be if there are more token sellers than buyers. And that for sure can not happen. That means that more than half of the playerbase, each player, must buy with real money at least 1 token/month to sustain your argument.
I am pretty sure, actually 99% sure, that Blizzard took opportunity of BFA launch and masked “this token price limitation” due to a new expansion launch.
And even if we take your statement to be true, still the price would not drop immediately after launch. The price should stagnate at least for 2-3 months, because i don’t think all players “wasted” all that “Legion gold” in the first days after the expansion launched. For sure, the majority of them saved some gold to buy at least a few months of subscription. Yet, the chart proves exactly the opposite: immediately after launch, not even a week, the token price dropped with more than 100k.
If i would be Blizzard and i would also be greedy, i would do exactly that: limit the gold price of the token, to force players buy more tokens with real money. That’s the most obvious and logical option they can do to increase their sales.
Nonsense
I was receiving 10k every day just from mission table playing only three characters.
And there was players out there with way more than three characters.
M8 no one care on West to grind for hours to buy token .On West you going to work and 1 hour of work pay your sub…I do understand that some players live on poorer countries but majority do not mind pay for sub
It is supply and the demand, currently, there is clearly the demand right now is out stripping the supply.
Blizzard must be delighted, 20 euro for a sub is an extra 7 euro a month for them
It’s extremely easy to make enough gold to get a token every month. With no grind at all.
Easy is relative. Playing content I don’t enjoy to get gold for an hour should pay up at least my hourly wage to be worth it. Otherwise I’m better by just buying a token.
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Huh? If the supply is increasing and the demand decreasing then the price will drop thats like basic marketing.
I believe the premise is that the demand will actually increase because of the rise of mats price. At least most people on the forums seem to believe that the low price of the mats is due to multiboxers.
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