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I wrote a post about the WoW Token, and the comments had some interesting ideas. One of them was that we could expand what the token does - you could extend the token or make a new token for things like character transfers, race changes, faction transfers and so on. Allowing people to use their in-game gold more flexibly and allowing people to select the kind of services they spent their real life money to trade in, especially after the initial burst of token activity is over and most people that are going to do it have bought game time.

Let's assume you have a ton of gold. Let's say you stroll by the auction house and you see that the WoW Token has dropped to around 20,000 gold (in the US it often is below this, in the EU not as of yet) and you decide hey, I've got a ton of gold, I'll buy a year's worth of tokens and so you do. You dump 240,000 gold at the AH, redeem a bunch of tokens and bam, you're paid up for a year. You just saved fifteen dollars a month (again, using US numbers, I know it's different elsewhere in the world) for a whole year, and you're feeling pretty good about it. And there's no reason you shouldn't - that's why the token exists, after all. What I find interesting is to consider all the side ramifications of this deal.

After a two week wait, the gametime for gold WoW Token is heading to European World of Warcraft realms this week.

Have you dabbled in the WoW Token exchange? Were you a buyer or a seller? Is 20,000 gold for a token too expensive for you, or totally trivial?

Though it remains against WoW's terms of service to buy gold for cash through third-party sales sites, you can now buy gold directly from Blizzard via the WoW Token.

The WoW Token was live on US realms when servers came back up this afternoon, so you can now spend $20 for 30,000 gold — or 30,000 gold for a month of gametime.

Though it can't be categorized as last week given it's happening today, perhaps the biggest World of Warcraft news is the WoW Token finally going live sometime today.

The WoW Token's existence is old news by now, but today's patch will finally bring it to live realms.

Blizzard hasn't released an exact date that the gold-for-gametime WoW Token will be arriving in game — it will be some time after tomorrow's roll-out of patch 6.1.2 — they have announced it will cost $20 USD.