So, if you're a big WoW player like myself, I am sure you have wondered at one time or another if purchasing WoW Gold is worth it? It seems you can't log onto the game these days without walking past someone who is spamming for one of these Gold selling companies, and with just so many things in the game that one might want, the offer of "easy gold" can catch the interest of many honest hearted gamers.
Of course, Blizzard is against the purchasing World of Warcraft gold, but there are thousands of people out there who do it anyway. It seems crazy to most people who have not played World of Warcraft that people would spend real money to buy fake money, but its actually a booming online market!
So is it worth it to spend your hard earned allowance money or pay check to get ahead financially in the World of Warcraft? Well, I decided I would find out!
Fist off, I researched the average Gold Prices from the more popular Gold Selling sites. The price of 1000G is about $70.00 American (so a bit less Canadian right now). In my province, that much would be what you would get for 9 hours of work at minimum wadge. So that got me wondering, if it is going to take me 9 hours to earn the money to buy gold, would it be better for me to just farm the gold myself?
I tried farming in Shadowmoon Valley in Outland on the Sunfurry Bloodelves for 9 hours. I used the addon Gold Tracker to keep track of how much gold I was making from drops and vendoring grey items. By the end I had made 219g and another 50g from the grey items that I vendored. Of course this was a lot less than the 1000g you would get for $70, but I also had aquired a variety of white items that can be sold in the Auction House because they are used to gaining Scryer rep. These I sold for about 200g, and I had also found a variety of green items and the Acane Tomes that are also used for Scryer rep that I sold for another 400g.
Of course, this still is only 869g, but on average I also had a blue drop every three hours; two jewelcrafting patterns and an item. I sold these for 900g, leaving me with a total of 1769g! That's almost double what I would have gotten if I had I spend the money I earned in that same amount of time. Not everyone is going to walk away with the same amount of gold after a 9 hour farming day because drop rates vary and it does depend on luck to a degree, but this just shows that if you are purchasing gold, its not like you are getting a deal on it.
The Gold Selling companies are actually keeping 76% of the gold that would be farmed by employees with the time your $70 would buy. This is how they make their profit obviously, but if you have the time to do it, why not farm the gold yourself and keep your money? You are forking out $20/ month to play the game anyway, so why not play and get gold for yourself rather than forking out $70 for someone else to do it?
In my opinion, purchasing World of Warcraft gold is not worth the money!
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