The Cost of World First - Gold Spent During the Sepulcher of the First Ones Race

Live Posted 2022/04/04 at 6:11 AM by Archimtiros

Race to World First

JiTianHong spent 1.1 billion gold.

Keep in mind that regional differences result in gold having different values across the game. Using regional WoW Token prices for the sake of comparison, JiTianHong spent 52% more gold than Liquid, but in China that amounts to "only" $32,000 USD, an amount slightly lower than BDGG's spending, while Liquid's 723 million gold equates to nearly three times more at $93,000 USD!

Using the same conversions, this puts Echo's spending at about $59,000 USD, SK Pieces at roughly $57,000 USD, Method at approximately $41,000 USD, and BDGG at around $37,000 USD.

257 million331 million gold279 million goldSepulcher race winner Echoreported at 694 million478.5 million gold

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Comment by corvettesloverWhat about endorsements or donations?Comment by GoodOutcomedidn't echo say 500m debt? I remember a stream title when they did boosts of HC bossesComment by RoflgglolThe actual proof WoW is pseudo-esport. Pay to win vibes are strong. I feel myself an innocent lamb looking back then i was pushing ladder percentage based Gladiators with friends before wow token era... good times.

No offense, not a hate/toxic post, but WoW should become healthier. Entire world first race viewership numbers did not impress me compared to other popular games. Entire show was cringe, afterall both players and content are. RemovedComment by finearThe actual proof WoW is pseudo-esport. Pay to win vibes are strong. I feel myself an innocent lamb looking back then i was pushing ladder percentage based Gladiators with friends before wow token era... good times.

No offense, not a hate/toxic post, but WoW should become healthier. Entire world first race viewership numbers did not impress me compared to other popular games. Entire show was cringe, afterall both players and content are. Removed.Comment by AnckThe actual proof WoW is pseudo-esport. Pay to win vibes are strong. I feel myself an innocent lamb looking back then i was pushing ladder percentage based Gladiators with friends before wow token era... good times.

No offense, not a hate/toxic post, but WoW should become healthier. Entire world first race viewership numbers did not impress me compared to other popular games. Entire show was cringe, afterall both players and content are. RemovedComment by DeVeteranDeletedComment by 2021511The actual proof WoW is pseudo-esport. Pay to win vibes are strong. I feel myself an innocent lamb looking back then i was pushing ladder percentage based Gladiators with friends before wow token era... good times.

No offense, not a hate/toxic post, but WoW should become healthier. Entire world first race viewership numbers did not impress me compared to other popular games. Entire show was cringe, afterall both players and content are. RemovedComment by HexatomonThese numbers are mindboggling. 500M+ golds in debt - damn, that's a LOT of longbois...!Comment by ApollomantisThe actual proof WoW is pseudo-esport. Pay to win vibes are strong. I feel myself an innocent lamb looking back then i was pushing ladder percentage based Gladiators with friends before wow token era... good times.

No offense, not a hate/toxic post, but WoW should become healthier. Entire world first race viewership numbers did not impress me compared to other popular games. Entire show was cringe, afterall both players and content are. RemovedComment by MurzacThe actual proof WoW is pseudo-esport. Pay to win vibes are strong. I feel myself an innocent lamb looking back then i was pushing ladder percentage based Gladiators with friends before wow token era... good times.

No offense, not a hate/toxic post, but WoW should become healthier. Entire world first race viewership numbers did not impress me compared to other popular games. Entire show was cringe, afterall both players and content are. (Just an opinion of an oldf ag, take it easy).Comment by CebulPreach alluded on Echo's stream that their spending is somewhere between 700M and 1B

I imagine the cost will continue this trend too since with the banning of boosting communities there are far fewer "safe" places to look for a boost. Comment by pghcrewThe amount of gold spent only highlights how bad the core gearing process is in wow right now.Comment by Snugglepuzz'community manager Kaivax wrote, "As of today, we will now prohibit organizations who offer boosting, matchmaking, escrow, or other non-traditional services, including those offered for gold."'
Seems this post from January means nothing.Comment by Rozz22No offence but this comment is super naive. Before wow tokens people would just buy gold so how is that any different. Wow was in the top 3 games in viewership in the world during the race. It peaked at number 1. If you dont think thats impressive for a MMO, a notoriously difficult game for spectators compared to FPS or MOBA, which also have a much higher playerbases, then you are very hard to impress.Comment by Anck
During the race the guild with the highest average ilevel was Skyline. The money spent for RWF is predominantly used to improve the gear of the raiders, so if money actually was the thing that determines who wins, you'd expect that the guild with the highest average ilevel would win. But that wasn't the case.

If you only refer to the fact that you have to pay ridiculous amounts of gold to even have a chance at the top 5 or top 10, then yes, you do have to pay a lot of gold for that. But there's literally nothing anyone can do about it aside from basically deleting the AH and completely removing raid loot trading from the game. As long as the in-game economy exists, it will give an advantage in the game for those with a lot of gold to spend.Comment by Paladinmaster44The actual proof WoW is pseudo-esport. Pay to win vibes are strong. I feel myself an innocent lamb looking back then i was pushing ladder percentage based Gladiators with friends before wow token era... good times.

No offense, not a hate/toxic post, but WoW should become healthier. Entire world first race viewership numbers did not impress me compared to other popular games. Entire show was cringe, afterall both players and content are. Removed.Comment by sleepywulfyThe actual proof WoW is pseudo-esport. Pay to win vibes are strong. I feel myself an innocent lamb looking back then i was pushing ladder percentage based Gladiators with friends before wow token era... good times.

No offense, not a hate/toxic post, but WoW should become healthier. Entire world first race viewership numbers did not impress me compared to other popular games. Entire show was cringe, afterall both players and content are. Removed.Comment by gh0sth4ndwell bdgg hasn't killed the jailer yet so i suppose their numbers can still rise
strange to list them tbh.Comment by yager05Limit lost hahahaComment by septicsalmonThe actual proof WoW is pseudo-esport. Pay to win vibes are strong. I feel myself an innocent lamb looking back then i was pushing ladder percentage based Gladiators with friends before wow token era... good times.

No offense, not a hate/toxic post, but WoW should become healthier. Entire world first race viewership numbers did not impress me compared to other popular games. Entire show was cringe, afterall both players and content are. Removed.

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