World of Warcraft has a currency problem: more than 500 kinds of tender can currently be used in the 20-year-old game
Things pile up in an long-running game, especially the items you hand over for goods.
I'm not sure if it is a problem, each currency has a specific purpose (ie materials split by expansion for a more level playing field on expansion release, faction specific, event)
I feel like it's well designed if anything
Exactly. If there was only one currency for all old content, everyone would just do the most efficient farm and buy everything that way and not interact with any of the related content.
People already hardly interact with old content. Have you been there? It's dead. The game should be called "Zone of Warcraft" because pretty much everyone only runs the latest expansion.
Exactly, veterans with a stockpile would be able to just buy the lot
Actually super agree, and surprised people aren't as on board with this.
Why the fuck should anyone have to do Ogrila dailies in 2025 if they just want a cool item for transmog? What is the point of currencies that trade for other currencies? Does anyone really need to make going back through Warlords of Draenor any worse?
Blizz already has converted old currencies to gold in the past. Would it really hurt the old and forgotten content of Retail if it was made more accessible to new players?
So .. like Earth?
rather more of them than on earth, according to the article.
Wowhead, the database of Warcraft items, lists 1,203 types of currency in the game. To be fair, some of those have been retired, and others are currency for a single item or purpose—but in comparison, the entire world (not of Warcraft) only has 180.
If its for a single purpose or item that just feels like a quest that isn't named as such.
What about meme coins? /s
You made me curious.
It appears that there are 180 currencies recognised by the UN. It also appears that there are less independent currencies, the example I saw was the Danish Kroner which has a fixed exchange rate with the Euro.
What I don't see in this are other forms of exchange. There's the obvious crypto currencies, of which I'm in no doubt there are plenty.
But that's not the only way to exchange value. Barter is one, donation is another. I suspect that there are plenty more.
Earth has a currency problem.
Eh, i couldn't tell you like, what ⅒ of those currencies were, but if I'm not mistaken those "currencies" author is talking about are really more like xp unlocks for specific gear. PvP/PvE gear have their own stats and tiers and "currency" cuz before this was implemented, it was tough for beginners to get geared up for tougher dungeons (no one wants to run a PUG for an hour or 2 and get nothing) and back then top-geared PvE guilds could roll dedicated PvP groups with their PvE purples.
It's not really a problem I've heard players complain about