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World of Warcraft currency becomes real-world coins

by Griffin McElroy on Jul 30th 2010 3:00AM

We can easily wrap our minds around the hobby of coin collection -- after all, coins are pretty awesome, and at the end of the day, you're really just spending money on money, making it a relatively low-cost endeavor. However, DC Direct's recently pressed World of Warcraft-themed currency -- which comes in a set of one bronze, silver and gold coin, each featuring a faction leader and major city from the MMO on both sides -- is a bit beyond our understanding.

According to G4, these three coins were on sale at Comic-Con for $69.99, though their real-life spendability is negligible at best. Heck, even if you wanted to use them to purchase your Artisan Riding skill and mount, you'd have to shell out well over $350,000 in order to do so. Then again, those things ... aren't real. But these coins are! And, as we've said, coins are awesome. We're so conflicted!

Source: G4TV

Tags: blizzard, coins, comic-con-2010, dc-direct, pc, World-of-Warcraft, WoW

Reader Comments (33)

Oh look, another useless piece of junk for WoW players to shill out money for. Can't wait to see how many millions they make from this.

@Brockobama123

Oh look, another jealous poor baby whining about others success! Your just angry because your on welfare and someone stole your food stamps.

@Fminus Negativity To The Rescue Why downvote this man for stating a fact?

I couldn't have said it better, myself.

@Support Arizona
Because he's wrong, but I can tell from your name there's no changing your mind. I won't try to rationalize with people who are irrational.

@Brockobama123 Actually, he's right.

The only people who would be upset about something like this are those who want it but can't afford it.

Otherwise, why get your knickers in a twist?

@Ezio Auditore da Firenze

Because believe it or not, some of us care about the industry as a whole. Some of us don't want to see it turn into Hollywood where the good, well developed games make average, if not unprofitable numbers, and the terrible high special effects with no story games make hundreds of millions.

Want proof that's how it works in Hollywood? Michael Bay.

Want proof that's how its starting to work in Video Games? MW2

Who makes MW2? Kotick
Who is Kotick? A greedy corporate pig
What company is Kotick CEO of? Activision Blizzard

Everytime you buy something made my Activision Blizzard you are supporting the Michael Bay of video games.

Actually if you were exalted with Stormwind or Orgrimmar you would only need to pay about $280,000.

...What?

The Horde-to-Alliance exchange rate must be horrible.

It looks cool, but it looks cheaply made... like a chocolate coin. Hell, I bet it is a chocolate coin, it's not like anyone's going to pry open the display to find out.

$70 is way too much for something they spent maybe a dollar manufacturing and shipping.

@Raiki

If they are foiled covered chocolates, that would explain why money is so easy to come by in the game. Everyone keeps them as a snack.

As those are not legal tender in any country (and never were), those are not coins, they are commemorative medallions.

This is just a way of pacifying the people who asked for Blizzard to sell gold.

@Pete

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I have a feeling this is going to make Millions.

Might be a good investment. I can see WoW Addicts selling their kidney to buy one of these in 2 years' time.

As a WoW player, it's interesting... but the price is pretty steep. Then again, I never shelled out for a Frostmourne.

:O .. oh my, blizzard is now officially a nation :D

Make money of pop culture = $$$$$ PROFIT $$$$$$

As someone who has played WoW for 2 years and has 2 almost 6k gearscore characters at 80 I never knew what WoW gold looked like.

There;s not ingame representation like there was for games like Oblivion that made the coin that came with teh collectors edition so snazzy.

So these coins are worthless, and look like they were made by a 6 year old.

@Emophia \

You didn't pay much attention, did you? Go fish up a gold coin in Dalaran. It's icon looks like a gold coin. As do the copper and silver coins. You can even get a gold coin in bags from Fishing dailies, which sell for 1g.

And nice posting with your GS. Nice bragging, no one cares.

seems weird for horde and alliance to have cooperated on creating a standard currency, including recognition for all of their leaders.

@GenBanks oops never mind, just looked at the picture more closely!

Is it just me, or is the authenticity of these coins tarnished by the concept art-esque characters? I dunno...

Checking out the original post by G4, the Horde ones look better. Wonder why the Alliance ones are so matted and cheap looking?

http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/706582/World-of-Warcraft-Virtual-Cash-Gets-Real.html

A way better investment than the gold coins that Glenn Beck is selling on goldline.

Wow that's pretty expensive...

I knew I wasn't losing my mind... These were announced over a year ago, but apparently are just now becoming available.

The silver and copper are solid sterling and solid copper. The gold is gold-plated.

http://kotaku.com/5321380/you-can-buy-actual-world-of-warcraft-gold-coins

@Wulf rar , thats what i was thinking i remember seeing these on amazon for like 16 dollars

@Commenter jr
BURN. IN. HELL.

They're copper coins.... not bronze.

You know we originally reported this story all the way back in January? :P

http://www.wowhead.com/blog=141411

Holy crap, you guys are just running a story on this? These things have been around for a long time.

Whoever came up with this idea didn't think this through.

Gold is worth more than silver and is worth more than copper. This is true in real live and in WOW. The size of the "gold" coin is larger than the silver and the silver is larger than the copper.

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