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Lonesamurai

Lonesamurai

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Apr 2006

Cheltenham, Glos, UK

Wolf Pack Samurai [WPS]

R/A

24 Nov 2007 at 13:47 - 201
Quote:
Originally Posted by The Herbalizer
I disagree.

Anet knew items would go higher than 100k.

Beta testing etc. would have shown them this. The ease with which gold could be made then making items with low drop rates,
I don't remember items going above 100k in the betas

The Herbalizer

The Herbalizer

<3 Ecto

Join Date: Jul 2005

24 Nov 2007 at 13:55 - 202
Quote:
Originally Posted by Lonesamurai
I don't remember items going above 100k in the betas
No but Anet could be able to see how easy it was for people to make gold from casual game play. Like say making 5k per hour or whatever it is questing.

15k armours which come to like 75k+ which are not even the most expensive armour sets etc.

Adding items which only dropped a few times e.g. r8 15>50 crystalline swords, dwarven axes, serpent axes, ascalon mauls, krytan axes, swamp clubs etc.

Crom The Pale

Crom The Pale

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Nov 2006

Ageis Ascending

W/

24 Nov 2007 at 16:45 - 203
Quote:
Originally Posted by The Herbalizer
No but Anet could be able to see how easy it was for people to make gold from casual game play. Like say making 5k per hour or whatever it is questing.

15k armours which come to like 75k+ which are not even the most expensive armour sets etc.

Adding items which only dropped a few times e.g. r8 15>50 crystalline swords, dwarven axes, serpent axes, ascalon mauls, krytan axes, swamp clubs etc.

You also have to keep in mind that Anet didn't expect people to play 1000 hours of the PvE, let along the 5000+ some of us have. They expected us to spent 100-200hours in PvE then move to PvP. That didn't happen for a vast number of players hence the large amount of cash was farmed and people could sell items for 100K.

T1Cybernetic

T1Cybernetic

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Sep 2005

Wakefield, West Yorkshire, Uk, Nr Earth

Alternate Evil Gamers [aeg]

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26 Nov 2007 at 22:09 - 204
A few of you will remember that there was a rollback one of the times to reset any unfair trades when the merchants went crazy and started selling ecto/shards at 250g each.

But, not alot of people remember that when it was just prophecies there was a previous problem with the traders a couple of times when ecto and shards were very highly priced so i bet alot of the wealth has come from there too.

Drop of Fear

Drop of Fear

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2006

W/

26 Nov 2007 at 22:33 - 205
Quote:
Originally Posted by T1Cybernetic
A few of you will remember that there was a rollback one of the times to reset any unfair trades when the merchants went crazy and started selling ecto/shards at 250g each.

But, not alot of people remember that when it was just prophecies there was a previous problem with the traders a couple of times when ecto and shards were very highly priced so i bet alot of the wealth has come from there too.
few hundred ectos at most if u were extremely lucky to be there full time. no way this can explain the xxx armbraces

Crom The Pale

Crom The Pale

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Nov 2006

Ageis Ascending

W/

27 Nov 2007 at 04:07 - 206
If you have been here since the start you may recall when there was a diffence in pricing at merchant between Europe and American servers.

This lead many, a friend of mine included, to make 100K in just 5min buy purchasing Black Dye in one and trading with somebody in international who would then sell it to merchant in the other. After they maxed out their storage with gold they bought ectos.

placebo overdose

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2007

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27 Nov 2007 at 04:13 - 207
didnt the actual merchants differentiate in prices in the same dis at some point that also was a fast huge source of $$$ but i think that if you have --- armbraces you either spend money on a GAME or play a GAME like it is a job come on people have fun because it is only a game

Sparda

Sparda

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Nov 2006

The Netherlands

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27 Nov 2007 at 16:13 - 208
Quote:
Originally Posted by placebo overdose
didnt the actual merchants differentiate in prices in the same dis at some point that also was a fast huge source of $$$ but i think that if you have --- armbraces you either spend money on a GAME or play a GAME like it is a job come on people have fun because it is only a game
Yes you are right about that that it's just a game. But to know that there are people who are knowing and willing to exploit the game for there own agenda.
This makes the game less pleasant for us.
And a last thing just let this thread go to waste we will never know who still had duped stuff in the end i don't wanna know this only aggravates me more.
So as Thread maker just close it.