Yep! People will buy WoW tokens from the auction house with gold, and they can either redeem the tokens for $15 of shop balance or 30 days of game time. I like making gold in game, so anything I've bought from Blizzard over the last few years (including WoW expansions and other games) has been with gold.
The price of tokens went up by about 100,000 gold after this mount got announced and they were selling out fairly regularly for the rest of the day. It seems to have stabilized now, though.
It's definitely still chugging along, although I will point out that the sub numbers now include not only modern WoW players but also Classic players. If the 7 million number is accurate, that's 7 million across all WoW versions, not just modern WoW.
I know the article says it was published one day ago, but the author must've missed an update or something. The Hildir's Request update in August 2023 also gave us world modifiers; we no longer need a mod to portal metal and other restricted items!
Other than they ongoing payments for games I continue to play (hello, World of Warcraft), most of my money now goes toward games from smaller studios that aren't so expensive. Valheim, Timberborn, and many others are well below $70, and now I get to try games from other creators while still affording the couple of big spenders I enjoy.
I see your point - I'm also happy with the current version. That said, I did purchase the app with the expectation of continued development. I'm not demanding major weekly updates in perpetuity or anything, but I don't feel it's unreasonable to want reassurance that the app you paid for hasn't been abandoned a few months after release.
(To be clear, I mentioned in another comment that I know this is normal for Sync and we will likely get more updates down the road. I can just also understand OP's concern.)
I have no concrete answers, but this was fairly common with the Sync for Reddit app as well. We'd go several months without updates before they'd resume for a while and then drop off again.
I'm relatively confident the same will happen here, so updates will probably return soon^TM .
True, if it turned into a situation where you had to sub with money for a month every time you wanted to redeem a token or something, that would definitely lessen the value for me. I'd still say it was worth it because I could use the tokens for expansions and other games, but not everyone may have the same opinion.
The WoW token wasn't introduced until WoD, so if you played that long ago it wouldn't have been an option. If you're ever looking to jump in again though, it's definitely a useful system if you like to make gold in game.
Free trials can't farm gold anyway because they're capped to 1k gold, so this really does only impact bot accounts for the most part. There's likely a small number of people who use tokens because they otherwise couldn't afford to play, but I expect that's not terribly common.
As someone who uses gold to buy WoW tokens for both game time and shop credit to make other Blizzard purchases, I have a hard time getting upset over this. I've been playing the game without spending money for years, and tokens are also how I buy both WoW expansions and other Blizzard games. Asking me to pay money for a month of sub time every few years seems reasonable, especially if this change makes it even the slightest bit annoying/harder for bot accounts.
Similar to that, yeah, although I think the master/slave thing started earlier. (It's a bit more blatant, tbf.)
I agree that allowlist doesn't roll off the tongue quite as nicely, but as long as it makes it obvious what the word means, I'll go with it.
Is there a setting that will allow me to view upvotes and downvotes as separate numbers rather than one combined score? This is the one setting in Jerboa that I can't seem to find in Sync. Jerboa:
Sync:
Yes, people pay $20 to buy a WoW token from the cash shop which then gets sold on the in game auction house. That person gets in game gold (the amount fluctuates), and the person who bought the token from the auction house gets their choice of either $15 of shop balance or 30 days of game time.