OMG The Prices!

Onito

Onito

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2005

Death Boring Sweden

Clan Plus

Mo/Me

Hmmm true. They should really gett some traders in International dis too....

Racthoh

Racthoh

Did I hear 7 heroes?

Join Date: May 2005

Scars Meadows [SMS], Guild Leader (Not Recruiting)

I decide to PvP for a while, normally always in the towns hearing all the chatter and what not. Sigh.

Oh well, still managed to get a bunch at 9k. 3-5k cheaper than before.

Anomaly

Academy Page

Join Date: Jun 2005

W/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by warhead56k
Good luck. I sold mine before evryone notcied im officaly loaded. I wonder wjhat happend though. Oh yeah, the price will be set at 45, it wont go any higher :/.

It went to 47 earlier.

Mugon M. Musashi

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2005

France (Paris)

BUG

Mo/W

let's see what are the prices tomorrow

theVariable

theVariable

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2005

CA, USA

Knights of the Hokuten [KotH] (hokuten.org)

Mo/Me

Prices are going to fluctuate for a little while, as people adjust to the changes. People who are hoarding items into storage are at the most risk. NPCs now buy back at a better curve so selling to them is now the most convenient. And since we're synchronized with Europe and Korea now, prices should be fairly stable once things cool off. Today is a good day for everyone.

For the record. I only bought a couple of runes for my warrior. I have no intention of playing this market. Let's share the wealth people. That means not stocking up on things you have no intention of using...

TideSwayer

TideSwayer

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2005

We Farm Your [?????????s]

I have to say I'm very pleased with today's econo update.

Angelina

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2005

nice one to thoses who just became rich (ectos at 300 gold is cool)
You may craft the fissure armor for 50k ! wowowowowow really nice !
To the others players like me who missed that, it's still more than 1 billion
Hehe that's cool, I've never felt so much F*C*ED in a game !
Even at 1k/ecto, now its 9k each
Holy sh*t, you fixed the economy oh yeah, now some players get full stocks of ectos ! For sure, the rich players should be insane rich now, the "normal" players should be rich now, and the players who missed that are F*C*ED

Ah, I love guildwars, I'm very unlucky because :

- I missed the fresh golem farming (thanks for the nerf)
- I missed that gift of ectos (and shards of course)

No really, that was a good thing. (Oh of course, you can say that to runes too)

Take a look at this :

Player X has 100k.
He bought ectos at 500 gold each
Now he got 200 ectos.
Now, he can sell them for 6.5k each
200*6.5 = 1300k

In less than an hour, player X has boosted his gold by... 13 times (100k ->1300k)

Now player Z, who had 400k, buyed ectos at 1k each
He got 400 ectos.
If he sells now : 400*6.5 = 2600k

We can see that some players may become VERY rich in... 1 hour ? less ?

We can see that like this :
Player A made more money in 1 hour than Player B in months of farming (afternerf farming of course )

I'm bored.

00039

00039

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2005

Me Want Snuu[Snuu]

D/W

the dye trader is buying dyes at a reasonable price now

Onito

Onito

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2005

Death Boring Sweden

Clan Plus

Mo/Me

this updateded sucked,.. now everybodys gonna gett them self a max dmg gold strom bow and fow armor, it aint exclusive anymore..... fvck this update....

Mugon M. Musashi

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2005

France (Paris)

BUG

Mo/W

BTW, how come this happens at 1 AM here in France, when 80% of the players are sleeping ?

Mo/R9

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2005

Gold Coast, Australia

Mo/R

BTW, how come this happens at 1 AM here in France, when 80% of the players are sleeping ?



Erm, because the world is round?

Night Daftshadow

Night Daftshadow

Banned

Join Date: May 2005

In the forest

Hidden Shadows

R/Mo

no point in farming anymore. how stupid can ANet be for resetting the prices of superior runes such as vigor and absorption to 100g? gosh, cant they do something right? now the prices are back up for sup vigor and absorption. 40k for vigor and 80k for sup absorption. now for those lucky few that bought sup vigors and absorptions in bulk when it was 100g. ANet, stupid stupid stupid. every stupid thing they do makes me wanna play this game less.

Onito

Onito

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2005

Death Boring Sweden

Clan Plus

Mo/Me

who cares..... >_>


*goes make sucide with a hammer cause GW's aint working for me*

warhead56k

Banned

Join Date: Aug 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Onito
this updateded sucked,.. now everybodys gonna gett them self a max dmg gold strom bow and fow armor, it aint exclusive anymore..... fvck this update....

Wait, what do you mean? How can they get a armor easily? Im cofused


You cant buy bows from a mercahnt, storm bows that is.

Mugon M. Musashi

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2005

France (Paris)

BUG

Mo/W

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mo/R9
Erm, because the world is round?
No, it's obviously a conspiracy from the americans
in order to counter our conspiracy of spies

Ultimate_Gaara

Ultimate_Gaara

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2005

BC, Canada.. how aboot that eh?

i went to go check out what everyone was talking about and all i can say is wow... when i joined there was only me and 2 other people... 3 mintues later, 50 people come in and its a race to get to the traders... ive never seen so many sheep flock the the traders before...

Raco

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jun 2005

SA

W/Mo

The game is getting stupid.
For example my mate brought 30 superior absorbs for 100gp each. they are now at 80k ,Do i need to say more.The game is getting to easy and very boring very quickly.
There is gonna be alot of solo monks/warriors around now prices have dropped so bad,Atleast before the high rune prices made it hard for you to become a solo.

Oh and thanks anet i have now millions because of the update.In the next update can you add the fissure armor guy to lions arch because i have a bad leg and cant run to far.

Seriously Can anyone please try to explain what the hell anet are trying to acheive

Onito

Onito

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2005

Death Boring Sweden

Clan Plus

Mo/Me

i dont think they are very worried that its in the middle of the night for france when they make updates XD, though it is in the middle of the night for hole europe >_>

Xonic

Xonic

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2005

Mo/Me

it happened while everyone here in america is working

Onito

Onito

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2005

Death Boring Sweden

Clan Plus

Mo/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by warhead56k
Wait, what do you mean? How can they get a armor easily? Im cofused


You cant buy bows from a mercahnt, storm bows that is.

I never said that "they" would gett it easily, just that they dont need too do SHIT for getting FoW armor and a max dmg Storm bow....

What i have heard it is a bit HARD too gett Fow armor, u need alot of money and time... but no, not this time...

Supervixen

Supervixen

Academy Page

Join Date: Apr 2005

Asia

Quote:
Originally Posted by Onito
this updateded sucked,.. now everybodys gonna gett them self a max dmg gold strom bow and fow armor, it aint exclusive anymore..... fvck this update....
I'd rather skill make someone exclusive, and not luck at catching price drops or love for farming.

Angelina

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by YellowMarker161
I bought 100 ectos, 50 shards, 5 full sets of monk runes, and 40 vigors.

The vigors are already up to 40k =D

I'm going to be rich if prices go back up. If not, I only lost 100k lol
Can I do the same thing ? Ah I can't ?
But, you lost 100k in ~1 hour, now if you sell you can make more than 1 billion ? Ah cool ! Thanks arenanet ! Can I do the same please ? I want to be rich too ! Why is it limited to a few "lucky people who were there at the good time" ?

myword

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2005

Korea

Thank you ANet, sincerely.

You have just made me and my guild incredibly rich. Considering we're all long time players, we're already wealthy, even after getting Fissure armor. And now we are able to stock pile on Superior runes and materials for incredibly cheap prices. There were around 30 of us online (even more logging on, as i type, having received messages on MSN about the prices) during the reset and we've probably made millions, each, in profit. Looking at the price of Sup Absorption going back to 80k is a happy sight for us.

To the other people who might be upset that we're driving prices up by hoarding the items, don't blame us. We're just opportunists and ANet was kind enough to grant us such an opportunity that we grabbed happily.

vandalt

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: May 2005

Philadelphia

Eville Crusaders

Mo/

good ole americans, complaining because we're no longer special that we have more money then everyone else. i was rich before the update and i'm richer after and i love it. now people won't be so obsessed with money and will actually play the game. pvp should get a huge boost out of this.

farming will be reduced and the game will be much more enjoyable overall. who cares if there are twice as many people with fissure armor? i'm glad people who are upset by this are going to stop playing, it will make it much better for everyone else who stayed.

i do feel bad for the koreans and europeans though, they did get screwed big time.

Onito

Onito

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2005

Death Boring Sweden

Clan Plus

Mo/Me

u must be joking.... >_>

Xue Yi Liang

Xue Yi Liang

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2005

Northern CA

Outlaws of the Water Margin

Mo/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Luna Thirteen
COME ON!!! I just bought all my superior monk runes this morning for like 80k!!! ...Why do bad thigns only happen to me? *sniffle*
Here I am whining about how I missed out on the cheap ecto prices - you make me feel better now.

Xonic

Xonic

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2005

Mo/Me

fine example of damnd if you do, damned if you don't.

Ultimate_Gaara

Ultimate_Gaara

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2005

BC, Canada.. how aboot that eh?

Quote:
Originally Posted by vandalt
farming will be reduced and the game will be much more enjoyable overall. who cares if there are twice as many people with fissure armor? i'm glad people who are upset by this are going to stop playing, it will make it much better for everyone else who stayed.
Sorry you must be dreaming.. Farming will never stop, that is a sad fact of life... everyone always wants more and will stop at nothing to get it

Xue Yi Liang

Xue Yi Liang

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2005

Northern CA

Outlaws of the Water Margin

Mo/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by vandalt
good ole americans, complaining because we're no longer special that we have more money then everyone else.
yeah? Of course we're complaining. So what's your point?

myword

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2005

Korea

don't think this will stop farming as prices seem to be going up currently

Angelina

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by myword
Thank you ANet, sincerely.

You have just made me and my guild incredibly rich. Considering we're all long time players, we're already wealthy, even after getting Fissure armor. And now we are able to stock pile on Superior runes and materials for incredibly cheap prices. There were around 30 of us online (even more logging on, as i type, having received messages on MSN about the prices) during the reset and we've probably made millions, each, in profit. Looking at the price of Sup Absorption going back to 80k is a happy sight for us.

To the other people who might be upset that we're driving prices up by hoarding the items, don't blame us. We're just opportunists and ANet was kind enough to grant us such an opportunity that we grabbed happily.
It's that kind of thing that make me bored. I think there will be 2 kind of players now : thoses who were here, extremely rich, and those who don't were here, extremely poor (compared to the 1st)

Again : Thanks ANET ! Really !

Rhadamanthys

Rhadamanthys

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2005

I guess this would be a nice time to remind everyone that missed out on this opportunity, including myself, that THIS IS JUST A GAME. Yes, it sucked that while I was at class/work, people were getting these things at low prices but hey just think--once you turn off the game, poof....REALITY HITS!!! There is no such thing as Globs of Ectoplasm or Fire Wands of Enchantment. There are bills to be paid, dogs to be fed, sexual intercourse to be had, benches to be pressed and the list goes on.

Stop GW and go back to CS!! trust me, it's a better form of crack!

sino-soviet

sino-soviet

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2005

Israel before, CA now.

R/Me

Well, that update pretty much did it for me. I made 5 million gold. I gave out free perfect upgrades and 100k's to newbies who were nice people and needed it. I sold another 3 million gold for real money. I am going to have to quit now anyway. Bye GW.

free4all

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

Yeah ummm I wish I could've gotten all the ectos required for my fissure armor for 48k...like some lucky people...

Hot Dead

Hot Dead

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by SJG
I'm fairly sure they changed the drop rates as well. I just got two gold drops in half an hour.
Me 2, I was in aurora glade with my W/Mo and got 2 gold drops not more than 5 minutes apart, one was Sup. Vigor<-- , the other was Major Swords. <--

Angelina

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2005

Yes it's just a game, and by missing this you are now not more competitive, online gaming isn't fair, it's a fact, but this, it's must be a joke, boosting a few players to millions gold. You can farm what you want for as many time as you want, they will have more gold than you. What's the point having more gold etc ? They can buy fissure armor, selling on ebay, buy EVERY items they need, while you must farm for 30k / hour ? An online game can't be fair, but giving millions to a few players...

Lost

Lost

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2005

Hell's Precipice

I'm satisfied. I bought a bunch of stuff super cheap and I'm waiting for the prices to get really high so that I can make another fortune that I don't really need but like staring at.

Artemis Bladewing

Artemis Bladewing

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2005

Usually Lions Arch 2

Clan Brotherhood

Mo/Me

WOW this is a perfect example the the Fan community sux

I realized that there were 20 different threads complaining about prices and now that is stable everyone is complaining that some ppl got rich. Do you know how many ppl exploited it just buying stuff in europe and selling it in america (and vice versa)? I think this was a good update and gave value to the gold coins and makes weapon farming profitable once again.

The best is you can sell all the cheap stuff to the merchant for a correct price. I bet loads of ppl are angry cuz they accepted eco as a trade item (worth 10-12k) and now it lost value. But seriously how many want to spend more money on coloring their armor then buying runes for it.

And just to ask again, why would you need millions of GC? Items in GW are pretty useless and are just for the look. If you need good items find a collector and upgrade it.

CONGRATULATIONS A-NET FOR A GREAT UPDATE.

free4all

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

Yeah...while it would've been nice to have capitalized on this sort of opportunity like sino-soviet did, but you just have to accept the fact you didn't. I didn't, I'm a bit sad, but whatever. Just a game.

Aniewiel

Aniewiel

Smite Mistress

Join Date: Jun 2005

The Land of AZ, USA

Rt/E

Hopefully with the price fixes, things will stay balanced. With the market now flooded with things that people have run out and purchased today, things should retain some sanity.