Will prices for the Celestial Pig soar now or go down..

As the title suggests..

Pol

I doubt they will go down. There is now no way of receiving them, and there are people who missed the event. They won't soar, either - there isn't really that much demand for them... just that they won't bottom out.

I assume they'll stay the same...perhaps drop slightly...

Same with the mini-pig, but eventually people were practically giving them away.

Because of what it took to get them, lots of the people who got them probably dedicated them already. If anyone left theirs undedicated to sell, they're gonna be looking for a decent payout. Especially if they had to buy or claimed to have bought regular mini pigs at 30k each to trade for the celestial one. By that figure it would put the celestial pig at about 150k.

it only matters to the people who cashed in 5 for 1.

I think it will drop, just like other junk.

Thanks to dedication:
- Not dedicated: Rising and rising the less they are left unless they make celestial miniatures drop somewhere else. (And extremely rare drop from the celestial creatures in Nahpui would do) A possible "I have the last one. Who pays more?" must be prevented at all costs.
- Dedicated: Going down and down the more dedicated miniatures there are.

Some people jut dedicate the miniature and then sell it. I keep them all, though.


Miniatures are a bit troublesome. They should have a 'limited life'. Something that destroys them and an unlimited unfarmable source for them. For the Birthday miniatures there is no problem, but for the rest... ah... something likea way to give them to an NPC and get them destroyed, and the you can recreate them like with the hat maker. The system should keep track of the existin miniaturtes, so the undedicated number of them stay fixed.

Well, the supply is going to remain the same, and can only go down (if people delete them). If the demand remains high, the price will eventually raise. If the demand gets lower, the price will eventually drop.

I'm guessing the demand will get lower.

Normal economies doesn't always apply guildwars, because something randomly will happen no one will predict and then bam the economy explodes.

But mostly likely dedicated will only go down, and undedicated ones will only go up, as its been pointed out because the supply is fixed.

Anyone want to hazzard a guess for unded and dedicated piggies will sell for?

Pol

I really want one and hope they will come down in price. >_>
Not paying 100k+ x ectos for one. ;_;

I'm thinking that in time, a lot of the people who scrambled to pay 100k+ for them will cool on the idea, be in a bind for money for the next big thing, or want to free up storage. It'll be easy as hell to get a dedicated one if you're not picky, and if you hit the right person at the right time, you can probably get a decent deal on an undedicated.

I wouldn't count on undeds going very far below 50k, though.

What about undedicated regular piggies? Any chance they'll have some value? Since the trade off was 5 to 1, I imagine that removed quite a number of them from the population.

I doubt it. The ones who wanted pigs already bought them or had them given away free.

This sums it up nicely.

QFT 12 chars

1. Normal minature pig will drop like a lead weight. Why? It's a freaking pig. The major value ascribed to it was the ability to trade it in. Now that its only valuable avenue is gone, so will be its value.

2. Celestial miniature pig will temporarily drop, and then start to steadily climb in value. Why? The newness will wear off, people will realize that it's pretty indistinguishable from a rat, and will start to sell them off. As they become dedicated, more people will start to seek them out, which will cause the price to rise.

FWIW I've just visited all major towns and tried to trade an undedicated Celestial Rat for an undedicated Minipig. No takers.

I don't much care for the Celestial Mini-Pig anyway... it looks just like the Celestial Rat unless you're standing right on top of it looking closely. How are you going to make people envious of your wonderful piggy if they take it for a common rat and don't give it a second glance?

Now if for some reason we're still here in 2012 and get a Celestial DRAGON...

Undedicated CELESTIAL minipig or reg?

Celestial, that makes sense. Reg, they were effing crazy.