The new mounts in World of Warcraft are causing price surges. The WoW Token has become 35% more expensive!
Yesterday (09/13/2017), Blizzard released new details about BlizzCon 2017 and the improvements to the Virtual Ticket during a livestream. With the ticket, the announcements from BlizzCon can be easily watched in the stream. However, there are also some virtual goodies in the Blizzard games – one of them was revealed yesterday: Two fantastic mounts in World of Warcraft.
Since the mounts are extremely coveted, many players wanted to buy a Virtual Ticket for BlizzCon 2017 immediately – but without spending real money. They used their earned gold in World of Warcraft to purchase WoW Tokens from the auction house. These were converted into credit for Battle.net, allowing them to purchase a Virtual Ticket – entirely without real money.
As multiple tokens were needed for purchasing a virtual ticket (the price is 30€), many players resorted to the gold exchange multiple times.
Price of the WoW Token rises by 35% in 12 hours
The sudden high demand for the WoW Token caused an explosive price increase. Previously, the token had a relatively constant price of 240,000 gold pieces (in Europe), but it skyrocketed to dizzying records in the hours following the announcement.
At 9:30 in the morning, the WoW Token reached its peak of 326,733 gold – a price increase of more than 35%!
Since then, the price has been slowly falling and is currently (2:00 PM) just under 300,000 gold pieces.
The WoW Token was introduced to enable a legal exchange of in-game currency for game time in World of Warcraft. Those who do not have gold in the game can buy a WoW Token for real money and sell it for gold to other players in the auction house. The buyer then receives the token and can exchange it for game time or convert it into real euros for their Battle.net balance.
Did you take advantage of the short price spike to sell a few WoW Tokens for gold? Did you treat yourself to the BlizzCon Ticket with the WoW Token?
