22-06-2013, 05:19 PM
The economy about 6 months ago was atrocious. There was no money sinks implemented to the market place, this meant that people were accumulating huge amounts of gold without any reason to trade them.
Legendaries back then were only traded for high tier craftables or other legendaries, if you were to offer gold then you would be required to trade a lot of it to actually get the item.
The first fully fledged money sink was when the alchemist class got an upgrade to include the old donators weapons & armour. This money sink introduced the phenix feather priced at 1m and a couple of other lower priced items, after this implementation gold was finally reducing and it was a god send.
More gold sinks were added with the house crafting system, this dramatically reduced the amount of gold being accumulated by clans and houses as they were making the new top tier armours and weapons.
And from the most recent update the hero classes have added another gold sink of 750k.
The market place range currently does not reflect the sheer number of items in the game, you have to remember that the market place when you are a low level is overwhelming! The amount of customisation is very useful while levelling up. Choosing the right armours at the right time can mean making a worthwhile investment, or wasting it all for 10 minutes of fun. Removing these items would make the game dull.
The marketplace is also a very dangerous thing to use a price calculator. A lot of the items you see on the marketplace have been inflated in price to an extent that they will never sell. People then assume these prices are actually selling and base all of their assumptions off them.
Honestly I don't think the game is in recession otherwise there would be a hell of a lot more people complaining about things being overpriced.
Legendaries back then were only traded for high tier craftables or other legendaries, if you were to offer gold then you would be required to trade a lot of it to actually get the item.
The first fully fledged money sink was when the alchemist class got an upgrade to include the old donators weapons & armour. This money sink introduced the phenix feather priced at 1m and a couple of other lower priced items, after this implementation gold was finally reducing and it was a god send.
More gold sinks were added with the house crafting system, this dramatically reduced the amount of gold being accumulated by clans and houses as they were making the new top tier armours and weapons.
And from the most recent update the hero classes have added another gold sink of 750k.
The market place range currently does not reflect the sheer number of items in the game, you have to remember that the market place when you are a low level is overwhelming! The amount of customisation is very useful while levelling up. Choosing the right armours at the right time can mean making a worthwhile investment, or wasting it all for 10 minutes of fun. Removing these items would make the game dull.
The marketplace is also a very dangerous thing to use a price calculator. A lot of the items you see on the marketplace have been inflated in price to an extent that they will never sell. People then assume these prices are actually selling and base all of their assumptions off them.
Honestly I don't think the game is in recession otherwise there would be a hell of a lot more people complaining about things being overpriced.
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