WoW has officially gone F2P!

Sort of. In the most recent patch they added what they are calling WoW Tokens. These tokens provide a month's worth of game-time, and can be purchased from their website for $20 and then sold in-game for a certain amount of gold that varies depending on Supply/Demand. So Blizzard has gone the route that other games like EVE and Wildstar went and allowed players to essentially buy/sell gold in-game. The price opened at 30,000 gold each and after a short bump in cost, have since cratered to around 20k. It will be interesting to see what happens with the price of these tokens. Having browsed through a variety of comment threads on the subject, some people believe the price will continue to drop as it approaches the cost of gold from 3rd party sites while others believe it will rebound and settle in once the initial rush is over. For my part I've got about 200,000 gold which would equate to about 10 months of game time should I decide to cash them in on game tokens. I think, for now, I'll just hold onto it.