You Can Buy Avowed With WoW Gold--Here's How

Avowed, the upcoming RPG from Fallout: New Vegas and The Outer Worlds developer Obsidian, will launch on Battle.net, and players can buy it with World of Warcraft's in-game currency, gold.

Games on Battle.net can be purchased with Gold, and at the current rates, you'll need around 1.4 million gold to buy Avowed's $70 edition on Battle.net, according to PC Gamer.

IGN explained the convoluted process of how it works, but it boils down to how WoW Tokens can be exchanged for a balance credit on Battle.net. WoW Tokens are available for $20, and these can be re-sold through WoW's in-game auction house in exchange for gold. That gold can then be exchanged for $15 worth of Battle.net balance after Blizzard's $5 cut. With the Battle.net balance, you can buy anything from the Battle.net store, including Avowed when it releases in February 2025.

WoW Token prices fluctuate, but as of November 15, one WoW Token equals 269,433 gold. A total of five WoW Tokens would be necessary to buy the least-expensive version of Avowed, for a total of about 1.4 million gold.

This is a pretty roundabout method of buying a game like Avowed, but it is possible, at least in theory.

Avowed launching on Battle.net caught some people by surprise, but it isn't totally strange, as Microsoft now owns Battle.net by way of its purchase of Activision Blizzard. The game's $70 standard edition and $90 digital premium edition (which comes with five-day early access) will both be available on Battle.net.

Alternatively, Avowed will launch on Xbox Game Pass for Ultimate subscribers. Avowed was originally set to launch in 2024 before being delayed to 2025. The delay wasn't for quality reasons, however, but came down to scheduling it to help Game Pass.