wow token price in legion

[Project 501D13R]

With legion coming a lot more people are going to be buying the wow token from both the AH and from blizz, gold is supposedly going to be harder to make come legion, all the planned gold sinks, I can't figure out if the price of the wow token is going to go up, down, or stay the same. Does anyone have any ideas as to what the price of the token in legion will be compared to now?

[Teevo]

Whatever it is you want it to do, it'll do the opposite.

Seriously though, my bet is that it'll go down from people flooding the market with them.

[Sylvaeres]

Where did the logic of gold being harder to come by in legion come about? In beta, ignoring characters starting with 5k gold, it is stupid easy to come by gold. Random treasure chests award not only artifact power items, but a lot of high price gray vendor trash. Just doing a round of treasure hunting for artifacts yielded a couple k in gold and bags full of artifact power items.

I'm not joking when I say it is stupid easy to come by gold and there's practically no reason to even spend gold except on repairs (avoid the annoyingly overpriced AH as you really don't need anything on it). I've got about 35k in gold on one toon (without transferring money to any toons/from any toons) less the 5k starting gold. So, where did this logic come about? If I'm not farming (and I'm not) for gold or playing the AH for gold (and I'm not) I can't even use in Live... I can't see how your statement holds any kind of merit.

30k gold from leveling isn't an indication of the gold generation.

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Whatever it is you want it to do, it'll do the opposite.

Seriously though, my bet is that it'll go down from people flooding the market with them.

this. people will want to buy the dalaran ring, the spider mount, etc etc. They will do so by using real money to buy tokens. The price of tokens will drop.

[Maudib]

With legion coming a lot more people are going to be buying the wow token from both the AH and from blizz, gold is supposedly going to be harder to make come legion, all the planned gold sinks, I can't figure out if the price of the wow token is going to go up, down, or stay the same. Does anyone have any ideas as to what the price of the token in legion will be compared to now?

They will be going up... even with the many that will be buying them to sell on the AH... there will be just as many or MORE returning to give Legion a chance and have plenty of gold to buy a token instead of wasting $$$ on an unproven expansion that followed the dud WoD was,

[Maneo]

They will be going up... even with the many that will be buying them to sell on the AH... there will be just as many or MORE returning to give Legion a chance and have plenty of gold to buy a token instead of wasting $$$ on an unproven expansion that followed the dud WoD was,

I am guessing that the tokens will increase in price significantly.
- Returning players
- All the players currently playing by token will continue to do so.
-gold will not be flowing as it did in WoD w/out the garrisons. It was easy to pull in 10k gold a day and only play for maybe 40 minutes a day, in Legion gold will be available but will require more time to acquire it.

In response to the poster who said " I made 30k gold while leveling" well that is leveling, and honestly we are not really talking about that. We are talking post level cap cause it isn't like you will want to perpetually level characters right? Even at that how long did it take you to make that 30k gold? I made 120k gold this week and played a total of 360 minutes. It is easy and fast to make gold in WoD, I am confident it will not be this way in Legion.. the gold will be there but will require more time.

I guarantee a month after launch the token price will increase by at least 50%

[nonameelf]

It'll most likely go down, at least initially, because people will be wanting gold to buy the new shinies of the expansion.

[markos82]

I am guessing that the tokens will increase in price significantly.
- Returning players

So what? Not everyone has 100k laying around and not everyone is willing to pay that much

- All the players currently playing by token will continue to do so.

No they wont. Because read the above....

I guarantee a month after launch the token price will increase by at least 50%

I wouldnt bet on that. The price now is retarded, it is 4x+ more expensive than when tokens went live. Considering less people are playing the game now thus there isnt as much need when they were new the price shouldn't go up, even more so considering the more players are willing to buy token for cash and sell for gold because they will get more from it.

That tells me price for gold is being controlled by Blizzard and not by supply/demand. If the price gets to insane amounts players will find the other way to get gametime - using trusted gold sellers and get it much cheaper...

[Servasus]

So what? Not everyone has 100k laying around and not everyone is willing to pay that much



No they wont. Because read the above....



I wouldnt bet on that. The price now is retarded, it is 4x+ more expensive than when tokens went live. Considering less people are playing the game now thus there isnt as much need when they were new the price shouldn't go up, even more so considering the more players are willing to buy token for cash and sell for gold because they will get more from it.

That tells me price for gold is being controlled by Blizzard and not by supply/demand. If the price gets to insane amounts players will find the other way to get gametime - using trusted gold sellers and get it much cheaper...

LOL. How insanely delusional you are.

[markos82]

LOL. How insanely delusional you are.

Lol kid, prove me wrong...

[stevenho]

I suggest going to one of the many topics covering this instead of creating another one.

[kamuimac]

this. people will want to buy the dalaran ring, the spider mount, etc etc. They will do so by using real money to buy tokens. The price of tokens will drop.

and you say it based on ? most of non visiting mmochampion playerbase wont even know those items are in game few months into expansion -_-

there is only 1 possible answear - time will tell.

[beanman12345]

30k gold from leveling isn't an indication of the gold generation.

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this. people will want to buy the dalaran ring, the spider mount, etc etc. They will do so by using real money to buy tokens. The price of tokens will drop.

SO much this. And before people claiming, oh it'll take hundreds of dollars worth of tokens to buy spider mount. There are a term for these people. They are whales, They exist. Actually they exist in a large amount and keep almost every other MMO out there still playable.

[ComputerNerd]

Where did the logic of gold being harder to come by in legion come about? In beta, ignoring characters starting with 5k gold, it is stupid easy to come by gold. Random treasure chests award not only artifact power items, but a lot of high price gray vendor trash. Just doing a round of treasure hunting for artifacts yielded a couple k in gold and bags full of artifact power items.

I'm not joking when I say it is stupid easy to come by gold and there's practically no reason to even spend gold except on repairs (avoid the annoyingly overpriced AH as you really don't need anything on it). I've got about 35k in gold on one toon (without transferring money to any toons/from any toons) less the 5k starting gold. So, where did this logic come about? If I'm not farming (and I'm not) for gold or playing the AH for gold (and I'm not) I can't even use in Live... I can't see how your statement holds any kind of merit.

The passive gold income from garrisons is going away.
The only reason that some can make a lot of gold through trading is because not everyone is doing that.
Garrisons gave people gold to spend without continued effort.
Now they have to put in some effort, some work to keep it up, I suspect it will go back to the pre-garrison situation where only a minority had spare gold to spend.

[Ealyssa]

Token gold price will obviously skyrocket in the first month. As people returning people who left during WoD may want to see a bit more of Legion without paying more money. These "non loyal" customers want to put the least amount of money in the game.

After that it will really depend on 2 factors :
1)Legion success, the more it bring returning players the more the demand will rise.
2)Gold making. The harder it will be to make gold, the more people may want to sell tokens.

[Binko]

Token gold price will obviously skyrocket in the first month. As people returning people who left during WoD may want to see a bit more of Legion without paying more money. These "non loyal" customers want to put the least amount of money in the game.

I think you have it backwards and the gold price of the token will plummet in the first month.

The "non loyal" customers you talk about will not have ANY in-game gold to spend on tokens. But they will want some gold to ease their leveling. So they will be more likely to spend real money to get some gold.

Also, there are a lot of players like me who have been buying tokens the last few months because we deeply resent the content drought but want to keep connected to the game by playing casually. I and others are willing to farm for easy WoD gold but not willing to give Bliz more cash.

Once Legion comes out and there is some new content I and many others will be happy to pay the $15 sub and not have to mess with gathering up gold to buy a token.

The net result of both trends will be fewer buyers of tokens with in-game gold and more buyers of in-game gold with real world money. Token price will fall drastically.

[SteveRocks]

Soloing old raids nets me 80-100k gold per week (several alts). Unless that gets nerfed I don't see where the "gold is going to be hard in Legion," is coming from. If anything I would expect to be able to solo more raids as I don't bother with the MoP ones on live.

[ComputerNerd]

People are speculating based on information they really don't have, no wonder threads like this exist. Fine, so be it.

I can tell you that gold is not a problem to come by and this is from someone who doesn't farm for it either on beta or live. You can ignore this, at your own leisure of course, but the reality is that it is easier to get gold in Legion than in Live. No, you can't sit and garrison farm for it. But, that doesn't negate the fact that it is literally in every facet of Broken Isles content EXCEPT PvP (and I strongly suspect someone could find a way to make that happen, too).

But it isnt passive.
We have been told how farming raids isn't hard either, but it isn't attractive compared to garrison passive income.
Something being arguably easy does not make it attractive.
That still requires a player to go out doing something, which garrisons did not require with gold missions.
If a player does not find the world content attractive, they will not be doing it, and therefore not gaining from it.

[Hey There Guys its Metro]

Will see the price approaching millions for sure this expansion.
You make 15k just from leveling. Gold is going to get REALLY inflated.

[Kolvarg]

So what? Not everyone has 100k laying around and not everyone is willing to pay that much

Indeed, not to mention a big number of people who do have lots of gold laying around or time/willingness to generate that gold consistently, probably haven't unsubscribed in the first place, so it's not reasonable to assume returning players will greatly increase the % of people buying tokens with gold.

Usually and especially lately expansion releases bring back a lot of people, a big part of them who will just be coming back to try out what's new and be gone in a few months, so chances are it will actually lower the % of people buying tokens with gold (since casual / ciclical players will most likely have more interest in buying gold with real money than gametime with gold).

My guess would be the price would start lowering at least a bit with the pre-patch as people come back to get ready for Legion, and then it going back to current values (relatively, will probably be higher considering the inflation that a new xpac will bring) as content becomes more scarce and people unsubscribe to wait for the next big patch or expansion.

[stevenho]

If you've done either regular or heroic raiding of any kind, your gear is going to be better than what you can get from questing for quite a long time (107-108 is where it would start getting replaced).

"Long time".
Aka about 8-10 hours.