Purple or Gold?

If someone offered you an item that was purple, yet exactly the same skin as it's gold counterpart, would you buy it for the same price?

Some examples here can be the Fellblade, and the Greater Guardian Spear, among others.

If not then why do you value the gold version over the purple if the skin and mods are exactly the same?

If you value the gold versions more over the purple versions, why don't you buy the purple versions as you can obviously get the same skin but at a cheaper price?

me personally, i really don't care but if im buying it and plan on reselling down the road i would def get gold because much easier to sell. Personal use, purple doesn't bother me

The only skins still worth a damn do not have purple versions. So the question really doe not apply an more. If you think you can make a business trading purple items then forget it. If you want to buy a purple skin, forget that too, you will find most skins dirt cheap in their gold version.

Except for those really expensive skins, but as I said, there are no purple Voltaic Spears and other skins of that caliber. Except for Purple Crystalline Swords. But even they hardly ever get traded or are worth the hassle trading them.

Setting up a buisness selling purple items wasn't really the question, neither do I have any intention of running out and buying a load to set one up either, lol.

I just wanted to see if people valued purple counterparts of weapons at the same value of the gold versions or not and why.

I have purchased purple weapons in the past, but nothing of a 'rare' skin and not for an equivalent price of a gold version. Color isn't important to me, stats are. However, I would NEVER pay the same price for a purple item as a gold one, even if the stats were the same.

Ok.

But the question is why?

If the skin and stats are exactly the same what's the difference?

Rarity.

The same reason people buy those terribly ugly Crystalline Swords. Gold=more rare than purple. Golds re-sell better than purples. And gold weapons carry more prestige than purple weapons (not that it matters).

Why even care about skins then?

Because it wouldn't be hard to find someone selling a purple for cheaper. Rarity is why people pay more. Purple isn't rare.

That's a good question.

However it's not the skin that people seem to care about but the colour of the font used to describe the item in question. The debate is about two items one purple and one gold of exactly the same skin.

Personally I'd go for the cheaper version. The colour of the font doesn't bother me in the slightest. The skin and stats are still going to be what I want out of it right?

I mean unless you show it in a trade window no one is going to know (or care) what colour font your weapon has, so realisitcally, what does it matter what colour it is?

Well, it's the same reason that people care about "green weapons" although there are plenty of blues, purples, and yellows with the same stats!

As an example, take Miella's Focus, a green weapon. The stats on it are as follows:
Energy: +12 (req. 9 Protection Prayers)
Energy: +15
Energy Regeneration: -1
Health: +30

However, if you go to the collector Guard Captain Mirkoz in Saint Anjeka's Shrine and give him 5 dredge incisors, you can get a Protective Icon with the following stats:
Energy: +12 (req. 9 Protection Prayers)
Energy: +15
Energy Regeneration: -1
Health: +30

Is there any difference in the two items? Yes, the appearance. Is the appearance going to help you more than what the collector has? Heck no! This is why I don't really care about the color, I look at the stats.

So are you saying I could buy a Voltaic Spear for the low price of a Suntouched one?
You selling?

In that case, my answer is rotflol, NO.

People have a hard time appreciating anything, so when there is an item class which has less feeling of exclusivity attached, most players will outright dismiss it.

Some people might shrug, but within that shrug is enough shrug-power not argue with those establishing the trend of what is acceptable for posing and paying high prices for and what is not.

If one in 1000 gold drops had some lightning effect attached, then you'd see people go crazy over that rarity. If you give people good looking skins for basically free (i.e. Bonus Mission Pack), then you will have a hard time finding people using them.

I blame real life. Fashion trained people to believe that something which costs more is worth more and automatically looks better. Competing enterprises trained people to believe that the "rarer" of two otherwise equal products is more worth going for. Apple Macintosh users usually believe in both those things and act accordingly.

Because some go better with my armors then others.

In the purple/gold debate, no i would not pay the same as one is rarer/better resale/better to look at imo. I dont like purple weapons, blue ,green, gold are fine.

You're not making sense.

The debate is between two items of the same skin but different coloured font (purple and gold). Example being Fellblades, Greater Guardian Spears, Fiery Dragon Swords, etc.

It's funny you say this because I love the Glacial Blade.

So you are willing to accept that the skin of the item, which has ABSOLUTELY no effect on the performance of said item, CAN influence the price, but aren't willing to accept that the colour of the items can have the same effect?
Why?

Especially when ALL weapons of the same kind look the same under Splinter.

in my opinion it would make any difference
paying a gold inscriptable item more money than the blue inscriptable one is completely retarted and insane
but I personally will not buy a blue inscriptable at the same price of a gold because I CANT SELL IT
I wish people didnt care so everyone would be happier

I bought a perfect Chaos Axe. It was purple. I paid the same price I would for a gold one, for the purple one. I didn't care. It did the same thing. It's not like a gold axe is going to give me more damage or more special abilities. They are the exact same!

I could care less that it is purple, blue, gold, or green. All that matters is that it does the same thing as any other weapon. My thoughts are with the original poster. I will never understand why someone is selling a perfect VS for over 100k, when I can get a perfectly good green with the same stats, and it does the exact same thing, for 2-3k.

In my honest opinion, the market for stuff is ridiculous. I mean, it's a skin. A skin, and some fancy colored text. Is the appearance of something really worth 100k more than something else that does the same thing? No.

I can accept it, this isn't a complaint thread, I'm just curious about the mentality behind it.

Look at for example the Greater Guardian Spear. Gold versions of that are not really much rarer than purple versions, both are exactly the same skin whether purple or gold, yet one is worth more than the other yet there is no distuinguishing feature that sets either apart bar the colour of the font describing it.

For example (for sake of arguement) I could have a R9 15^50, 20/20, +30, purple Greater Guardian Spear and it would still be worthless to someone wanting to buy a nice skin spear. It would be looked down on because it's purple, despite the above mentioned, despite the indifferences.

The point here being that people are driven by the colour of the items font more than the item itself.

I use tons of purple items over gold of the same skin. But pay the same price for either? No way. That is exactly the reason I prefer the purple (or even blue/collector/weaponsmith) ones - they're cheaper.

Why, you ask? It's for the same reason that someone will pay many times more for a real antique versus a replica, even if the replica is made with superior materials and with greater function. There are simply less of them in existence = more rare = command greater value.