No word yet if Final Fantasy's Gil, Pokemon's PokeDollars, or D&D's ubiquitous PP/GP/SP/CP will also be minted in real form. http://kotaku.com/5321380/you-can-buy-actual-world-of-warcraft-gold-coins
keep some of us updated on this I like the gil coin idea and my wife would prolly like the WoW coin or coins anything to get her involved!
This was one of the odder comments to that article: Having spent thousands of dollars preordering this WoW currency with quite a large depost I am now quite worried, as the article has stated that this won't in fact be considered legal tender in any area of the world, and I've been informed that the "World of Warcraft" isn't in fact a World I can travel to outside of the digital realm. I am now in the position where I think I should warn others that if they wish to use this as a form of currency it might indeed be quite difficult, and if they have purchased any airline tickets to a location within Azeroth they may indeed have been taken advantage of by a person of unsavoury nature. It reminds me of the time I was herding goats in mongolia and the only means of purchasing objects I had was through barter. This proved quite difficult as the goat related products market in Mongolia could be considered highly competitive. In order to survive and feed my many young goats I had to partake in various scams. One of these scams involved letting our goats free upon a persons land, at which point they would eat and consume much of their green pastures. They would then call our second business, which was goat removal. At which point we would take back our goats, now well fed, and get paid to do so. The local denizens of Mongolia soon caught on and we were forced to flee on the back of our goats, who were sadly quite slow as the years of being well fed upon other peoples pastures had caused them to become quite plump. As a means of escape, when we had a few short moments, we gutted and hollowed out a few of the goats, and wore their corpses as costumes. Hidden inside the goats we were able to trot across the border to safety. As you can see from my story I feel that these coins may in fact not be made entirely of the substance they claim to be made off, as well as have little ability to be used as actual currency, forcing you to sell your goats, or exploit others land to feed your goats, while being paid to remove them later. Do cow eyes scare you?
Lol, you have to love the people on Kotaku. As for the coins, an interesting idea but I don't think many people would buy them. In addition, it doesn't look like they took the time to make the variation between the two factions coins very different which is somewhat of a disappointment in my mind.
