Just for gits and shiggles I took a look at the gold sellers on eBay to see what the effects on gold prices have been.
They're gone. All the gold sellers on eBay are gone. Either eBay did a crackdown, or this is really working.
Possible side effect of the loot scaling?
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consider this alternate explanation:
because of the loot scaling, tons of people quit the game, and the gold sellers now have no customers, and so they shut down.
this is almost certainly not what really happened, but I think we're jumping to conclusions if we say that Anet has succeeded with the loot scaling.
(especially with all the reports of bots at Bergen Hot Springs)
because of the loot scaling, tons of people quit the game, and the gold sellers now have no customers, and so they shut down.
this is almost certainly not what really happened, but I think we're jumping to conclusions if we say that Anet has succeeded with the loot scaling.
(especially with all the reports of bots at Bergen Hot Springs)
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Oh, wait, I can't afford to buy anything in the game anyway -- so what the H do I care if there fewer gold sellers?
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I was in LA not an hour ago and I saw someone whining about how the price of his gold has almost doubled since the nerf.
Needless to say I was one of the many who reported him for claiming to buy gold. However, if he wasnt just doing this for some sort of "macho look at me lol" effect, you might be right. It would make sense. Harder to get gold, therefore less to sell, therefore higher prices to make the most of what you have.
Anyway, any sort of anti-gold-selling works for me, even if it does make it that little bit harder for me to get my Sin Vabbi armor
Needless to say I was one of the many who reported him for claiming to buy gold. However, if he wasnt just doing this for some sort of "macho look at me lol" effect, you might be right. It would make sense. Harder to get gold, therefore less to sell, therefore higher prices to make the most of what you have.
Anyway, any sort of anti-gold-selling works for me, even if it does make it that little bit harder for me to get my Sin Vabbi armor
I just checked the german ebaysite and there are still five pages of item/gold sellers. There is actually a great decrease in goldsellers, but if I remember it correct, the price for ebaygold has risen quite a bunch. 110€ for 1000 Plat. Duh. But if there are still enough crazy people buying, esspecially at that price, it's just a matter of time until the sellers return.
The lootscaling did just one thing. Botters take longer to get the same amount of gold.
The lootscaling did just one thing. Botters take longer to get the same amount of gold.
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Ummm..... That's EXACTLY why you should care. Less people buying gold means less inflation. That gold you do have is becoming more valuable.
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The merchants and skill traders don't give a rat's ass that there is less gold in circulation.
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And also, it might even boost their profits. Since gold will for some be even harder to come by legally, the demand will rise, but supply will stay reduced.
So in the end, they might even profit much more for selling gold for more money.
No matter how they "adjust their bots" bots will still make less money now they did before loot scaling (think about it, bots are getting an 1/8th of the gold they used to (or with solo HM farming, lets say a 1/4th). This is brillant and I'm quite pleased.
Also, to Neshim who just googled "guild wars gold," did you actually look at those thousands of sites? Half of them are probablly redirects to threads on forums like this and other sites. Its doubtful that there are 2.2 million GW gold selling sites when only 3 million copies of the game have even been sold Use your head people.
Also, to Neshim who just googled "guild wars gold," did you actually look at those thousands of sites? Half of them are probablly redirects to threads on forums like this and other sites. Its doubtful that there are 2.2 million GW gold selling sites when only 3 million copies of the game have even been sold
Use your head people.
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consider this alternate explanation:
because of the loot scaling, tons of people quit the game, and the gold sellers now have no customers, and so they shut down. this is almost certainly not what really happened, but I think we're jumping to conclusions if we say that Anet has succeeded with the loot scaling. (especially with all the reports of bots at Bergen Hot Springs) |
At first I thought you were claiming that players had really left the game in a snit. But, just so everyone knows it, the opposite is true. Player numbers are up since the update that introduced Hard Mode and made other game changes. We have more people playing Guild Wars, and they are playing more hours. A few more facts: Gold is now substantially more expensive to buy in RL cash. Prices within the game currency are dropping, making more things affordable to players. The average player is making more from playing. And yep, we're dealing with bots and sales-spammers regularly, too.
Things are going well.
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Things are going well.
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