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Wowhead Economy Weekly Wrap-Up 170 | Battlenet Gametime Changes, Bots & Bananas

Pubblicato 28/03/2021 alle 13:00 da perculia

SamadanTSMYouTubeTwitchGametime Changes and How it Affects Gold MakingAnnounced earlier in the weekas was recently changed for the UK back in December 2020We recently conducted a review on the available services in all currencies. Based on this, we have decided to alter the available Game Time options in the Blizzard Shop. As of today, the Game Time options of 30, 90, and 180 days have been removed and Game Time is only available as a purchase of 60 Days.

New Game Time Option	USD
60 Days Game Time	29.99

Please note that currently, the options and pricing for the purchase of both WoW subscriptions and WoW Tokens will remain unaffected. Also, any Game Time that has already been purchased for an account will not be affected by this.We appreciate that players choose to spend their time with World of Warcraft, and we are committed to ensuring the game continues to provide players with great entertainment value.If you would like to review your World of Warcraft Game Time and payment method, you can do so through Blizzard Account Management at any time.
As there has been some confusion, I wanted to backup what you said.

The pricing for the purchase of both WoW subscriptions and WoW Tokens will remain unaffected. Details and options for these items can be found here:

Subscriptions: https://us.shop.battle.net/en-us/product/world-of-warcraft-subscription
WoW Tokens: https://us.shop.battle.net/en-us/product/world-of-warcraft-token

This change is specifically in regards to game time which can be found here: https://us.shop.battle.net/en-us/product/world-of-warcraft-game-time 1This effectively means for those of us that pay their sub with the token, you will no longer be able to get the bulk discount for buying multiple months of game time.

However, if you subscribe with real money, the bulk discount is still available for auto-renewing subscriptions. It seems this puts a slight crunch on the discount goblins could get, especially those with multiple accounts, for converting gold to blizzard balance and using that balance to buy bulk game time.

To put this into math (US region), 6 months via token before this change would cost 6 tokens or (if converting to blizzard balance and buying in bulk) 77.84 USD before taxes. To get an accurate number I will include the taxes for my state at 8.875%, this brings our new total to $84.75. Current token price is 134,347g as of writing. That means $84.75 USD had a conversion of 759,061g ((134,347g / 15) x 84.75).

Now with the change, you are better off just buying the token and converting it to game time without using the blizzard store (since this avoids tax). 134,347g x 6 is 806,082g, an increase gold cost of 47,021g over the 6 month game time cost before this change (an increase of 6.2%), or a 7,837g extra each month than before. Not really terrible figures for the mega-rich goblins, but maybe impactful perhaps on mid-tier goblins who relied on the bulk discount to make the gold sub more ‘worth it’.

TLDR: if you buy bulk game time using gold, it just got 6.2% more expensive.

What are your thoughts on this change?

I have quite a lot of accounts across multiple battle.net accounts. Most of them are inactive. Sometimes I'd like to reactivate one of those account for one reason or another, but I might not have any gold on that account to buy a token.

Before this change, I'd simply use my bnet balance on another account to buy a 30 day GTC and use that to reactivate my other account. But I cannot use my bnet balance of another account to pay for a 1 month subscription.

— BilisOnyxia (@BilisOnyxia) March 25, 2021Prices going BananasDoctors Without Borders charity fundraiserBananasAre the Bots Back?Jack the DipperGhost Iron Ore

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— Jack the Dipper (@TheGoldDipper) March 24, 2021

A well-known farm gets nerfed or a new one discoverd.

It is a popular item for botters to farm and there is a ban wave or circumnavigation allows them to operate again

The price goes over a certain threshold making it desirable to farm again.

Another item which requires the material is in demand/loses demand.

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