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Bonus Roll Loot, Patch 6.1.2 PTR Build 19728 - The WoW Token; Live Hotfixes for March 5th

posted 2015/03/05 at 7:48 PM by oliviadgrace

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Comment by Trudatronix pretty sure it will cost more then 100g =p Comment by cordell9 Please tell me this PTR cycle will be shorter than the last one Comment by furrymammoth I am really interested in seeing how much money this costs, and how much gold it will cost. My guess is either they will set up a minimum gold cost of this, which we will see almost immediately, and it will probably be around 10000 gold, or there will be no gold limit to the cost, and a month of game time will quickly go down to a very low cost. \r
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I doubt the latter. We're talking about an alternative to giving Blizzard money here, so at the very least, I assume they will make you work for it, even if the supply is huge. Comment by tresrottn Blizzard is setting the price and if it's only 10k gold, it's not worth it. Comment by oliviadgrace As noted, we're pretty confident that the 100g gold price in these PTR images is for testing. Blizzard wants players to be able to test it, and this price allows them to do so. As we said in our previous article on the token, it seems more likely that it'll be in the thousands of gold on live servers. Comment by Bowtome Its to try to fight gold farmers in a way. I figure there will be gold cap between 15k min 30k max . That being said the price range will value some where between that. for $17 you can buy 20k gold that depending on server and site as well Comment by DaltonImperial Not sure if this is possible on the PTR, but have you been able to see how a Lapsed Account would be able to buy a token, as was suggested in the Venturebeat interview? Comment by PragmaticSoul I'd very much like to get in on this money-for-gold thing. There's lots of things I'd like to buy (e.g., upgrading all my heirlooms to 1-100, getting the Expedition Yak, getting all the Voltron jewel mounts) that doesn't depend on the economy.\r
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The influx of all this gold (from people obsessed with hitting gold cap, who now have something worthwhile to spend it on), however, might cause inflation on stuff on the auction house (e.g., buying raid-drop pets could become prohibitive UNLESS you're selling off tokens right and left, sigh...). Comment by Interest Not sure if this is possible on the PTR, but have you been able to see how a Lapsed Account would be able to buy a token, as was suggested in the Venturebeat interview?

I'm really hoping so... I can activate my other account that way!

(Also it would be a little lame if you couldn't. In a way it would make the system illogical because to buy sub tokens you need to activate a sub...) Comment by Czips Little question here. It will be possible to aquire token if account is frozen to make da account you know, active by using token? Cheers ;) Comment by billymm I like the game token idea but I think AH prices will go crazy for a bit. I think the tokens will cost somewhere from 40-50k gold Comment by naruna if the token gets anything over 30k gold than it's not worth it....\r
as u can buy 2months game card for 60k from sellers now... Comment by unholydriver I just wanted to say that I'm really impressed and happy Blizz is doing this. It's a bit weird to see so many negative-ish comments in general but welcome to the internet, I guess. Comment by DarthEnder I wonder if there's any chance we'll ever be able to spend WoW tokens for things from the Blizzard store besides game time.\r
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I would love to be able to buy the store pets or mounts without having to spend any real money. Comment by Mantrhax Probably will be like 100k gold Comment by Grim32 To be competitive (at current rate) against gold sellers, it will have to cost roughly 20k. Otherwise people will still buy gold to buy this time to save some cash.\r
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If the cost goes too high - gold sellers will still be the preferable option for those players who want easy gold. If the cost goes too low, people will still go to the gold sellers to get cheaper game time than buying an actual month.\r
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But the above figure (20k) is a middle ground for Game time - meaning it is not worth any more or less than going to the gold sellers. Comment by Strafer What? Gametime until 2038? :D Comment by LyssaWoW I wonder if there's any chance we'll ever be able to spend WoW tokens for things from the Blizzard store besides game time.\r
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I would love to be able to buy the store pets or mounts without having to spend any real money.\r
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This would be a nice idea if WoW wasn't a subscription based game. Cash shops, and the grind for the currency to avoid real money transactions, are for free-to-play. The point of a subscription fee is it gives you access to the whole game, not some of it then "here's some nice mounts we made that used to be what we made into achievement\/drop items in the game, that you can now pay extra for". \r
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I'm not ranting, I'm all for this token-for-game-time idea, it will definitely make people think twice before going to shady sites to hand over their credit card details to some random person in somewhere beginning with Chi and ending in na ;) Comment by Sas148 Little question here. It will be possible to aquire token if account is frozen to make da account you know, active by using token? Cheers ;)

Yes. Accounts with enough gold to purchase a token will be eligible to do so thereby reactivating the account.

To be competitive (at current rate) against gold sellers, it will have to cost roughly 20k. Otherwise people will still buy gold to buy this time to save some cash.

If the cost goes too high - gold sellers will still be the preferable option for those players who want easy gold. If the cost goes too low, people will still go to the gold sellers to get cheaper game time than buying an actual month.

But the above figure (20k) is a middle ground for Game time - meaning it is not worth any more or less than going to the gold sellers.

The value in purchasing something that may cost more in gold is the security associated with it. No longer will credit card information have to be provided to shady gold-selling sites nor will the transaction itself be against the Terms of Use resulting in a possible forfeit of the account and all progress associated with it. Comment by PWEly Please up Destruction Warlock. \r
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#Destruction Warlock Live

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