Some big news came in over the weekend, as we got to see how subscriber numbers have been changing over the last 8 years! The data comes from a Games Developer Conference (GDC) presentation by Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Warcraft franchise John Hight, summarized on Korean sit...
You can buy wow tokens with in-game gold, however the tokens are ‘created’ by someone buying one with real money to sell for in-game gold.
So all the wow subs purchased with gold were actually paid for by someone else.
And its $20 instead of $15. So its actually MORE money for blizz to buy via in game gold