[EU] Token price skyhigh

[Blayze]

I've started pouring my gold into heirlooms instead.

[Kharli]

On NA / Oceanic it was 20k for a while and I'm kicking my self that i didn't buy a fair few for that price, now they are over 40k and still going up. IMO they are not even worth anything over 25k, as it's cheaper to buy gold from the 3rd party websites from memory.

perhaps cheaper, but also NOT LEGAL <3 i'l happily pay 20 Euro for 80k+ gold

[Archmage Alodi]

I don't buy wow token at any price because it costs more irl money than normal subscription.
Don't care if it's my money or someone else

[Cynep]

I don't buy wow token at any price because it costs more irl money than normal subscription.
Don't care if it's my money or someone else

Heh. Instead of paying 500 Russian Rubles, I allow someone else to pay 20 Euros for me. They want gold, I have extra gold, we're both happy. Blizzard is even happier I guess.

[manypillars]

I'm pretty surprised that the EU price hasn't come down and it's been about three weeks. NA price has been ticking upwards as well. I guess fewer people are putting them up for sale and the market bears it because of all the people printing money with garrisons.

[Archmage Alodi]

Heh. Instead of paying 500 Russian Rubles, I allow someone else to pay 20 Euros for me. They want gold, I have extra gold, we're both happy. Blizzard is even happier I guess.

That's the exact reason i don't buy token.

[Baronthefirst]

My gametime expired couple of days ago and I found myself shocked that the price is over 80k, last month I bought game time, it was 65k. I think 15k increase in 1 month is pretty huge, don't you think so? I think I'll stop spending ingame gold for gametime once I decide to play and just give the damn 13e.
What is your final cap on the amount of gold you would pay the 30days of WoW for?

I also found my time was running out a few days ago on the US and I looked at the token price. Since I log in like once a week now. Even over 40k to me was just too much. So I let my game time expire and I just test the Legion Alpha to see what I can do to help with game development. My guild was done WoD raiding anyway.

[Mahmeya]

people printing money with garrisons.

At least we can say that after several tries, they managed to create working gold dump. WoW token (sub for gold) is the first somewhat decent way to spend gold I saw in long time. Crafted mounts are one-time money drop. Same with crafted gear (which I do myself on main, and don't do at all on alts).

[t1saif]

94k now, rip

[Ealyssa]

Guess: Europeans are more susceptible to the lack of content, so more people want to stop paying for an empty shell. They turn to tokens and, as demand/supply ratio increases, so does the price.

Barely the case actually.

https://wowtoken.info/ will show you the yearly quotation for every region. And you can see that EU and US curves are pretty much identical. They follow the same trend and in game change have the same impact.

What makes EU price higher are the eastern countries with lower wages. For polish, czech, hungarian, russian 20€ for a token is really expensive when they may earn somethine between 500-900€/mo. Same goes for the sub cost in real money. So they are also more inclined to buy token with gold instead of money.

So EU and US follow the same trend, just not at the same prices. BUt when one is rising, the other is too. US price also spiked patch day (don't forget EU patch day is one day later, token impact will be different on the micro scale).

[Felixon]

Actually,that's kinda weird,since today a lot of people are returning back to WoW.Well,I suppose, that people aren't buying the gold anymore, since one of the main boosting features - challenge modes - are gone.

[Kuja]

I don't really like to pay to access my garrison yet again, that has even lost it's way to generate gold effectively :P Once demon invasions start to happen, then there's at least something new to do and a reason to sub!

[Deleted]

What makes EU price higher are the eastern countries with lower wages. For polish, czech, hungarian, russian 20€ for a token is really expensive when they may earn somethine between 500-900€/mo. Same goes for the sub cost in real money. So they are also more inclined to buy token with gold instead of money.

NA servers also have their low wages player - Mexico and whole Latin America. So, I dont belive much in that explanation.

[Deleted]

Gold income goes down in Legion

Player count goes up when Legion comes out

Result will be cheaper tokens, but that will take a while as the millionaires will overpay for early blues and epics in Legion as that always happens for new expansions. In addition to other gold sinks such as the expensive mounts

I bought 24 tokens when they were 40k on EU. It was cheaper then because A: More people played the game, and B: Because gold inflation was not as bad as it is now.


Right now we have the richest WoW players ever, that will go down and so will token prices. The best thing you can do right now is to do nothing. Let everyone else spend their gold on inflated items and mounts and just wait 3-4 months into Legion. I suspect the token will cost 50k by then.

[Ealyssa]

NA servers also have their low wages player - Mexico and whole Latin America. So, I dont belive much in that explanation.

% of population matter. There are nothing to "believe" in economical facts. You either understand them or you don't...

[FuxieDK]

Barely the case actually.

https://wowtoken.info/ will show you the yearly quotation for every region. And you can see that EU and US curves are pretty much identical. They follow the same trend and in game change have the same impact.

What makes EU price higher are the eastern countries with lower wages. For polish, czech, hungarian, russian 20€ for a token is really expensive when they may earn somethine between 500-900€/mo. Same goes for the sub cost in real money. So they are also more inclined to buy token with gold instead of money.

So EU and US follow the same trend, just not at the same prices. BUt when one is rising, the other is too. US price also spiked patch day (don't forget EU patch day is one day later, token impact will be different on the micro scale).

This would make sense, if the fact wasn't completely different: European wages, in average, are higher than US wages, in average..

The main difference is, we pay more IRL money for our tokens, as Euro > Dollars..