MMO fans lament reintroduction of World of Warcraft's most hated item as raid ring goes for $13,000 in gold
A WoW Classic player has paid the equivalent of around $13,000 to win a ring bidding war against a raid buddy, leading plenty to lament the impact of real-money trading and wonder what the recent reintroduction of WoW Tokens are doing to the in-game economy on Wrath of the Lich King Classic servers.
As you’ll see from the clip below, two World of Warcraft players duke it out in text chat to earn a piece of raid loot that’s dropped from the Trial of the Grand Crusader. After a fair bit of back and forth, one goes as high as bidding three million gold before the other finally passes. The ring itself is solid, though not something anyone would shell out around $13,000 for if you’re looking at how much gold that WoW Tokens converts to at the time of writing.
It's a fairly innocent idea in theory, as you can earn gold for just helping out or guarantee getting an item you fancy if it drops. The issue arises when you consider how gold can be obtained. You can grind all the best farm spots for gold until sunrise, though doing that alone will seldom lead to you having three million gold spare. Rather, you're likely looking at real-money trading or WoW Tokens to get that kind of change.
RMT is nothing new to Azeroth, though WoW Tokens have sparked plenty of chatter among Classic fans since they were introduced earlier this year. If you've been out of the loop, a WoW Token can be officially purchased for real money and used to acquire game time, or be sold in the Auction House. People don't like it and were happy to see it excluded from WoW Classic until Blizzard introduced it earlier this year.
"The best way to start is to simply say that this wasn't something we arrived at lightly," Blizzard wrote in a blog post, addressing a
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