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Originally Posted by xDusT II
if they are exempt from loot scaling, shouldn'tt hey just stay the same as before?
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Why is ECTO price in the toilet?
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Originally Posted by Mr_Cynical
No, because a lot of the human players who would previously have farmed trolls, kappas, or things like that are now farming Ectos.
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Here's to Anet and their creative math system where both of the following are true. 8/8 = 1. 8/1 = 1.
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In all honesty. Items were and will always be way over priced. People charge a fortune for things that are essentially free. People inevitably inflate the economy. I like how they are crippling the economy in terms of sellable golds and the like do to the fact that the items should never have been so high priced to begin with.
Also another reason items may be dropping in price is more farming, the same thing happened before nightfall. Now that Eye of the North has been announced people are trying to farm gold so they can buy the new items and armors from the get go, it always happens with a new expansion in an mmo is announced.
Also another reason items may be dropping in price is more farming, the same thing happened before nightfall. Now that Eye of the North has been announced people are trying to farm gold so they can buy the new items and armors from the get go, it always happens with a new expansion in an mmo is announced.
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Originally Posted by Kas
The prices where doomed the second they excluded rares and rare materials from the loot scaling effect. Hardmode however drops those things better than ever before in areas that didn't drop anythign worthwhile before. So now a lot (and I mean a lot) of the rare skinned weapons are earthbound in their prices. Who in his right mind will buy a Colossal Scimitar for 1.000 p when he can just farm the area for 2 or 3 days and get it nonetheless.
So with the loot exception, every price is earthbound due to extense oversaturation of goods. Plus the farmers have been hit reaaaaally hard with the update while the newer players haven't been hit at all. It's basically a message shoved down the throats of the playerbase "if you f*cks don't lower your prices for the newbie, we make you do it". And this is what this is all about, why everything is losing value left and right. So the lazy newbie can get his stuff faster. Basically, not much has changed for the older players instead that every price has lost 3 digits at the end same as the income has lost 3 digits at the end. Things will balance again but at a much lower level which is much more lazy guy friendly. |
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I have a job and a family too. If someone wants something in a game which he can't achieve, he will have to wait a bit longer to get it. As simple as that, yet the way the lazy people wanted it (yes, lazy and maybe even moreso, impatient) is to lower the lower the barrier so even the most laziest player can get all the shinyest glittering loot.
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Originally Posted by GalaKnight
In all honesty. Items were and will always be way over priced. People charge a fortune for things that are essentially free.
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In other news, the demand for ecto is down. Fow has always been semi-ugly and as drops increase for "rare" skins, there is less need for mass ecto for high end trades for torments and the like. Combine that with less gold chasing the same number of goods, and you have lower prices.
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Actually, this is so familer! We just went over this in my economics class! The law of Supply and Demand.
In this instance, the law states:
if price goes up, quantity demanded goes down. Although, if price drops, quantity demanded goes up. Inversely, if price goes up, quantity supplied goes up with it. If price goes down, quantity supplied goes with it.
Now, think about this, also, for a minute. If demand sinks, price at equalbium goes down, and quantity at equalbium goes down, too.
Although, if demand rises, the exact opposite happens. (Price at E goes up. and Q at E goes up.)
Now, this is the last law for this. If supply rises, Price at E sinks, & Q at E rises. (more goods. stauates the market. Price will go down.)
Although, if supply sinks, price at E rises, & Q at E sinks.
This can be attributed at any market good or service. (sorta like how there were so many forge runners at one point? And the price for a run went from 20k, to 2k?) The same thign is happened with the loot exceptions.
And there you have it. The law of supply and demand rules once again! (I should become an economics major. D: )
In this instance, the law states:
if price goes up, quantity demanded goes down. Although, if price drops, quantity demanded goes up. Inversely, if price goes up, quantity supplied goes up with it. If price goes down, quantity supplied goes with it.
Now, think about this, also, for a minute. If demand sinks, price at equalbium goes down, and quantity at equalbium goes down, too.
Although, if demand rises, the exact opposite happens. (Price at E goes up. and Q at E goes up.)
Now, this is the last law for this. If supply rises, Price at E sinks, & Q at E rises. (more goods. stauates the market. Price will go down.)
Although, if supply sinks, price at E rises, & Q at E sinks.
This can be attributed at any market good or service. (sorta like how there were so many forge runners at one point? And the price for a run went from 20k, to 2k?) The same thign is happened with the loot exceptions.
And there you have it. The law of supply and demand rules once again! (I should become an economics major. D: )
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Several reasons. First, hard mode made many rare skin weapons easier to get, causing prices on all of those to drop market wide. Second, ecto and shards are exempt from loot scaling and normal mode AI is dumbed down, so they are easier to farm. More importantly however, at the beginning, people had less money and so ecto dropped some, but then people had more money and things were worth less as more rare skins popped up so ecto fell.
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Originally Posted by Croco Clouds
But in my opinion, having the exemption of rare material is better than without it because there is less riot in the forum (First hard mode day was a crisis...) xD
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The funny thing is hard mode has made many farm run quicker and easyer. With the mobs attacking quicker means duel uw runs are quicker, as they will kill them selves quicker. Other things like 2 man foundry is also quicker, as the margos drop a better qza dn famine, and also die quicker too.
So in other words, quicker to get drops = more drops = lower prices.
So in other words, quicker to get drops = more drops = lower prices.
Is it a bad thing that ectos and for that matter most golds and other weapons and such are going down in price?
This is what Anet intended from the start thats why there is a 100k limit in trade, the messed up when they didn't do a roll back of the great rare material and rune price reset of '05 at which point a lot of people became very, very rich and prices went through the roof from there.
Besides which the people that have horded are stung but everything is cheaper so its a win win situation.
This is what Anet intended from the start thats why there is a 100k limit in trade, the messed up when they didn't do a roll back of the great rare material and rune price reset of '05 at which point a lot of people became very, very rich and prices went through the roof from there.
Besides which the people that have horded are stung but everything is cheaper so its a win win situation.