Play World Of Warcraft To Get Tons Of Overwatch Loot Box Credits

Longtime fans of Blizzard will know that the company often conducts overlaps of its several franchises where items, characters, or even entire places from one game is inserted into another. It would seem that the video game publisher just stepped it up with a new gimmick where players can farm a ton of gold in World of Warcraft and use it to buy loot boxes in Overwatch.

One of the easier ways for players to take advantage of the new system is through WoW Tokens where players can buy some and then trade them for Battle.net credits worth $15, Kotaku reports. The amount of credits for Overwatch that the players get is directly tied to the amount of gold that they are supposed to receive when trading tokens in WoW.

For North American WoW players, each token costs about $20 and can be traded for 62,393 in-game gold. In this instance, the $20 plays a bigger role in the transaction since trading the bought tokens for Battle.net credits is rather direct. In terms of the gold, however, it also matters because players can also purchase tokens with the gold that they already have.

As Polygon reports, players can use the gold that they farmed while playing WoW in order to buy the tokens. Since the tokens already have value when exchanged for Battle.net credits, getting as much of the currency to buy loot boxes in Overwatch as possible becomes a matter of farming as much gold in WoW as they can.

Naturally, this presents players of both games with a conundrum. For those who have a lot of gold to spare after spending years farming, having to choose which game to prioritize might not even be an issue. Players who only have a limited cache in both games, however, will need to decide how much they want loot boxes versus how much they want their WoW characters to stay rich.