What do you think happened? They flooded the market with incursion gold and increased gold rewards from supply crates last phase. Didn’t do much about the bot problem in the start. There is so much gold floating around now that this is the new norm.
I know what happened, I don’t feel forced to level a certain way. Maybe I should but i preferred to level the good old way. Just cant afford any of what I need to actually be part of a raid group.
The injected millions of gold into the economy since phase 3, its supposed to be a fun seasonal server yet instead they want people to spend all their time farming or resort to buying gold to compete. Basically that or quit.
In all seriousness- this is the first time I’m actually concerned for SoD.
The massive infusion of gold is something we avoided in Phase 2, but got an entire Phase 2 worth of gold infusion in a matter of days via the NIs.
Between that, the raid getting wild changes before the first lockout ends, and some severe bugs… I don’t know that it will mortally wound SoD, but the economy just took a big jump towards the GDKP dumpster fire that is Era.
I don’t see a viable solution either at this point.
I had thought they were locking Trades/AH early on saturday morning so they could freeze gold transactions to trace down and start cutting out gold acquired from NI down by 75% to the intended amount…
I imagine they’ll go down a bit, but with the amount of people able to just buy the cheaper stuff and flip it back to the ‘better price’ for them… It’s never going to be a normal economy again, let alone before 3-4 lockouts of the 8 total we get for P3.
It was supposed to be a casual mode, something everyone could experience. I knew the moment the “grey parser” insult garbage started where this was going to go. Should have dropped out then.