World of Warcraft’s WoW Tokens went live yesterday for $20, giving players a new way to buy play time in the auction house with their hard-earned in-game currency.
Blizzard expected the auction house value of the Tokens to fluctuate, and that’s exactly what’s happened – the value has fallen by around a quarter in just one day.
Initially valued at 30,000 gold, the new buying price, according to Wowtoken.info, is 21,094 gold. That’s probably due to players rushing out to buy Tokens in the hope of selling them for the highest possible amount, flooding the market with a greater number of items that are actually in demand.
Prices will probably balance out a little once the initial rush ends, but Blizzard’s failed experiment with the Diablo 3 auction house provides ample evidence that messing with a game’s economy doesn’t always produce positive results.
