I’ve noticed a lot more dumping of raw materials in the WoW Auction House these day. Buyout prices are much lower than what the standard buyout price should be.
Are current events having an effect on something that tens of millions of people turn to as an escape (or an addiction)?
depends on your server. on mine the raw materials are actually pretty high, but the end result is going for cheap. its kinda bass ackwards actually.
Cheap entertainment is cheap. Hours of entertainment and get away from reality, from bills, from spouses, from problems in real life.
Not quite a recession but there is an increasing number of subscription
Maybe its just the server you’re on because on the one I play on prices are insanely high.
i don’t know what server you play on (me Staghelm) but raw material prices have gone way up on our server. Especially plant / flower prices b/c of inscription and those deck of cards for pvp. I mean when you’re paying close to 40g for a stack of goldthorn that’s just ridiculous.
Nah. People are just to lazy to level their crafting skills and if your on an older server your server is flooded with people who have "experience" in making money which if you read any gold making guide consists of farming raw materials. The truth is it takes a lot of work to level a crafting skill but you can make more money off of it if you do it right. People are just lazy! They just want to mine and pick plants to make money (which it does) and thats what all the guides tell them too. I say if you want to make some serously gold from this pick up a crafting skill and use all these cheaper supplies to make better stuff and sell that. (if your level 80 and can get the mats). The prices on their stuff will continue to drop but if you can make good stuff your prices will increase. Another thing i’ve noticed is that on old servers the prices for low level herbs/ores etc are riduculous. I sold a stack of heavy leather for 40g! that’s insane! but the higher level stuff is the same as it’s always been
But yeah overpopulated flooded dead servers
I just switched to nesingwary for that very reason. Hopefully when it opens there will be an influx of good things
as people say it matters what realm your playing on, its not people dumping raw materials its bots for companies to make money to sell for real money. If its real people then they are trying to compete with the gold farmers or to make them really mad( my bro sold one of his bags for 30g when they were selling it for 50g he got a letter complaining to him then he said whatever then the they lowered the price then he raised it to 55g)
prices drop as demand go down. Just like real life economy. Or say if 10 people are trying to sell the same raw material. By time the 10th person puts his auctions up he will have undercut the first person’s auction substantially so his materials sell quick.
If that’s happening its usually because of dumb asses who like to undercut people in the auction house to the point that they wont make barely any profit at all from the materials. For instance. Arctic furs on my server are going for about 50g. Some people decide they want to undercut me by going down to at least 25g, rather than going down only a few silver or copper and make 2 times the money. I Don’t think that the real life economy has any impact on the wow economy. Even if the prices of raw materials are down on your server, they will probably go up. The only reason they would permenantly go down is if they materials became easier to get. Its all about supply and demand. The more of something there are, the less it costs. but the less there are, the more it costs
I agree with the server thing because my servers AH prices are absolutely ridiculous.