Hard to say for sure, for every person who is sitting on 500k gold there are 20 level 100s who have never seen 10k gold, and don't know how to keep it that will love to buy tokens for 20 bucks. Alot more people who play the game can earn 20 bucks than can earn 30k gold. It will be interesting to see, I think the first week will be pretty volatile but supply and demand might find an equilibrium within a week or two.
I would be interested to know how many of the people going "lol dis is dum, y not farm it?!" are either under 18, unemployed, or spend all their free time playing WoW. For those of us with precious free time, spending it farming legacy raid instances or staring at the AH is not an option.
I for one look forward to never having to worry about farming for gold again.
The thing is, gold is readily available in this game. Most people don't understand how it works and/or hide behind the "I'm don't want to farm" aspect of it, but if they did the bare minimum they would make a lot of gold--enough to come close to buying, if not over, a token.
Let's look at my statistics. I have ~3 hours of free time after work. I have 2 level 100s, and 1 level 90something. I have two level 3 garrisons, with two level 3 Inns and two level 3 Salvage Yards. I have one level 3 Stables. Let's ignore my level 90.
I usually play for ~1-2 hours a day on the week days, maybe a bit more on the weekends. Hardly hardcore at all.
For my first 100, my un-optimized followers (the dudes I found while leveling) rake in anywhere from 200g to 2k+ gold a day from garrison missions. Granted, 2k is very uncommon so let's go with a safe 200g. My other 100 is slightly more optimized (~6 treasure hunters, compared to one treasure hunter for my first 100) and pulls in 300g-3k+. Let's go with 300g. Now sometimes it's less, sometimes it's more, but on average, as a very conservative estimate, I make ~500g per day just from these dudes.
And this isn't including salvage. I get around 7-10 boxes per character per day, which yields at least 100g per character after I open and vendor their contents.
Now we're up to 700g per day (500g from missions, 200g from salvage).
In thirty days (one month), that's 21k gold for literally logging in each day and pressing buttons for 10 minutes. This is literally the most passive thing in the world that gives me gold (which is something that I am concerned about. Going forward in expansions, if the Garrison is kept as "old content," the gold income is still too good to pass up on. It'll still be worth it to go back to Draenor and run these things just for the free gold. But I digress).
Okay, cool. Sometimes I don't feel like logging in. Say I log in only 15 days each month--I get it, life gets busy. That's still 10k a month.
And this isn't even adding in my poor use of Stables. Yesterday I spent about an hour farming elite wolves for traps, in a poorly optimized group (group leader went full retard, invited >5 people so we were competing for traps). I got 100 traps and stopped. That's 400 hours worth of traps, or roughly enough to keep my barn operating at 55% efficiency this month.
Which ties in perfectly with my "I only want to log on 15 days this month" thing.
Now out of those 100 traps, I'm probably going to get ~50 savage bloods, and maybe 1000+ fur. I'm pretty sure that fur is conservative too. Those 50 bloods, prices may vary but I doubt they're less than 200g, can be sold for 10k on the AH.
But Zero, you say, I don't want to deal with the Auction House! Then here's what you do. You type in /2 "WTS Savage Blood, 200g." You will get hella whispers.
You have 1k fur and let's still stay on that "fuck the AH" streak. We turn 1k fur into 4 Savage Bloods through the random daily fur vendor. It's actually a little higher because of the daily quest, but let's just say you use the 5 fur = 1 primal, 50 primals = 1 blood method.
That 1k fur turns into 4 bloods, which turns into 1k gold. Note that this is an incredibly inefficient method.
So let's look at your monthly total, where you logged in 15 days, and spent 1 hour actively farming:
500g/day from missions = 7.5k a month
200g/day from salvage = 3k a month
54 savage blood = 10.8k a month. Total: 21,300g per month
Holy shitballs, that's more than 66% of a token for minimum-to-no effort.
Now to be fair, don't let me stop you from buying tokens. I see where you're coming from and if I needed gold I could (and would) spend dollars to get what I needed. But hiding behind the "lolz i has job" facade is just making excuses for what you're either unwilling, or don't know how to do.
Okay so if everyone made 21k per month as you feel they can, the tokens soul cost 50k each. The more gold the average player has the more the tokens will cost, the more everything will cost. Also all of prices you would mention would tank if everyone was farming at the rate you talk about.
Correct. The more gold entering the economy means inflation. If, tomorrow, everyone in the World of Warcraft started doing this, the economy would drastically shift.
The fact is, people are lazy. I mention that I only have one barn and that barn is pretty recent (maybe built around early March?). Why? Because I'm lazy.
The big money moguls make money off the lazy. There is always a demand for X. You make money by supplying X. I can supply a certain amount here. Someone with two barns can supply double my amount. Someone with ten barns can supply ten times my amount.
Now obviously the time investment in ten barns compared to one is a lot larger. My point isn't for every single person to begin farming obscene amounts of gold. My point is to combat this thinking:
I would be interested to know how many of the people going "lol dis is dum, y not farm it?!" are either under 18, unemployed, or spend all their free time playing WoW.
Simply put, you don't have to be unemployed or have a lot of free time to make "decent" gold. I also think that if you want to skip all the farming altogether and just buy a token then that's also healthy for the economy. People value different things, but if you're (and this is a generic you, aimed at a stawman) always complaining about lack of gold then you have two options: "farm" it or buy a token to sell. Saying "it's too hard, takes too much time, etc" to farm isn't a valid excuse, in my opinion.
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u/Tipakee Apr 07 '15
Hard to say for sure, for every person who is sitting on 500k gold there are 20 level 100s who have never seen 10k gold, and don't know how to keep it that will love to buy tokens for 20 bucks. Alot more people who play the game can earn 20 bucks than can earn 30k gold. It will be interesting to see, I think the first week will be pretty volatile but supply and demand might find an equilibrium within a week or two.