Because he’s dogwater at the game or doesn’t even play so why is he yapping about it
Consumables being high is partially the players’ fault because a significant portion of them consistently and continuously buy gold. Getting knocked offline and losing a character due to servers being attacked is not the players’ fault. These two things are not even remotely the same.
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It’s not the players fault they want to use consumables.
It’s the games fault because there’s simply not enough raw mats for the amount of players
The supply isn’t keeping pace with the demand but the demand is also higher than it should be because people that normally would be priced out of buying consumables without RMT are able to buy them because of RMT. This obviously isn’t the only way people are buying consumables but it’s a contributing factor for sure. You guys are hyperfixating on the supply side of things but the demand side is also relevant.
But GDKPs are banned no one needs to buy gold.
If you ban gold buyers the price of everything is still going to be the same.
If you fix the supply it’ll go down
Not sure if you’re sarcastic or trolling since I think you’re reasonably intelligent but people buy gold for a variety of reasons in Vanilla, a major one being consumables. Banning gold buyers/sellers would absolutely have an impact on the prices because some of those buyers are 100% contributing to the demand which is a factor in why those prices are high. Increasing the supply would also lower prices; nobody is disputing that. But if you’re acting like the players aren’t at least partially responsible for this you aren’t being intellectually honest.
The main issue is that there’s way too many people for the amount of materials. Gold buyers or not.
Here’s the thing with consume prices, and I’ll out myself for it. I’m a very successful herb/alc this launch. I got to the point where I can reset prices on pretty much anything.
Consumes will never drop in price. Even if they make spawns higher. Greater arcane, and gfpps will not go below 7g, and 12g respectively on DS, I guarantee it
And you can allegedly do this because you have a corner on a market AND you know people would pay that price. Idk why people are acting like it’s solely a supply issue but that’s simply just not true. If more people stopped buying consumables, then prices would come down too. That’s how any market works.
Main issue is that hundreds of thousands of gold has been injected into the economy from bots operating freely for months. Average bot farmer is living in dungeons fly hacking on 100+ characters 24/7 for weeks generating raw gold.
Then sell this gold to RMT’ers for ridiculous cheap prices.
Then the RMT’ers spend absurd amounts on consumes because in terms of dollars, it’s really not that much.
The bots, gold sellers, and buyers are almost entirely responsible for the current state of the economy on anniversary.
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What is a “main” cause or not is subject to interpretation. All I’m saying is there are 2 levers that are pulled when prices are determined. If you want prices to fall, you should address both levers, not just 1. Yes, supply is an issue. But it’s also important to acknowledge demand is a factor too. Which is why we both accurately said it’s partially the players’ fault.
It’s not though. Bots, and gold sellers/buyers are the cause of the current economy.
When you let bots inject hundreds of thousands of raw gold into the economy prices go up. It’s that simple.
If players weren’t able to buy 1k gold for like $10-$15, what do you think happens to the prices of consumes and boe’s?
They would go down. But the same impact would be theoretically achieved by doubling the supply while maintaining the demand (note the theoretical part of this, it doesn’t work like that in actual markets but I’m exaggerating for simplicity).
I called out aggrend on ignoring nightslayer and only catering to streamers and he blocked me on bluesky.
There you have it. They literally don’t care about anniversary servers unless it’s a streamer one
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Not even close bud… They swipe because there’s so few resources they can’t farm them and are at the mercy of the AH in a severely depleted supply environment. Don’t forget, there’s not enough resources to match 2005 by a factor of 10.
This is what they do. Every one of their devs has the thinnest skin I have EVER seen.
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This is why so many devs post on Twitter/Redditor. The “MUH REACH” is just a cover for “I dont want to be held accountable to players/customers.” Aggrend can block anybody on XTwitter/Bluesky/Reddit who bruises his nerd-ego and that’s that. Banning players (customers) for being critical of the Dev team on the forums would not be well received.
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Yeah he got triggered by me posting a picture of nightslayer AH prices. Sad.
Edge.
Lord.
They are kinda right though. DDOS or not. Blizzard didn’t do anything when they forgot to feed their hamster and hundreds of people died. But once onlyfangs got harmed, they help out.