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immagikman2
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To my eyes AD are a pointless fabrication.
Why not just have Zen and in game gold and forget AD completely?
Why not just have Zen and in game gold and forget AD completely?
If your hand touches metal, I swear by my pretty floral bonnet I will end you.
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Let me answer your question with a question. Why the f does it matter?
Directly buying in game currency probably leaves a bad taste in people's mouths.
Why do so many companies brand their own digital currency instead of just letting you buy gold or actual items for cash? Probably some negative stigma.
Well i guess the key thing to note in your "reasoning" is that's your opinion, and nobody gives a **** about your opinion.
Ahh hehe I kind of hadn't thought that they would be irrational about it.....
I thought there might be some sophisticated reasoning behind it
Pretty bad reasoning.
Go to school and get an education. I gave no opinion and I don't think you really understand the notion of curiosity. Grow up.
What? you have never been curious about ANYTHING in your whole life?
Did I miss the in game lore that explains what Astral Diamonds are? I don't think there's anything particularly sophisticated going on...
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Having one indirect currency is a necessity due to CC company, nickel and diming is not possible so to have small sum you need a first indirect currency.
The second one is for the psychological barrier. If you see "this cost 365721 AD", most people don't reconvert back to Zen then ton their own currency. Especially since AD fluctuate. ETA: also they need to decouple it from Gold, so as to control more tightly AD sink and faucet. ETAETA: in fact I nearly never use gold except for kits and up to level 40 never had to buy any potion. I suppose you need potion to raid and thus gold but I see no other usage.
Now what I would like to see, is like a stock ticker , which would use the in game currency exchange on all shard, and show the conversions in semi real time, like once per minute, and show a graph showing tendance. Now that would be great.
Legal reasons, I'm not a lawyer so I don't fully understand this. Only the US goverment can issue currency in the US (It applies to foreign player since the company is in the US and many of their countries have similar laws). That's also why player's cannot transfer zen from one game to another. Player's can make zen in the game but they must use that zen in the game.
P.S. I think the in-game money system stinks. We have zen, gold, AD and trade bars. You can trade zen for AD and AD for zen but you cannot trade gold for AD or gold for zen or anything (that I know of) for trade bars. Sounds like a system built for "gold" traders.
I wouldn't consider them currency. They are tokens you can exchange for goods. Much like in some state fairs were you can play a lot of games and take your winnings, tokens, in for that one prize.
Just like the street magician tries to hide the fact that there is no queen of spades on the table, so too Cryptic tries to hide the fact that you will have to grind for 27 hours to get enough Orc tokens to trade into the bounty fellow for enough lion tokens to get one thing from the token vendor standing next to him.
It is to require you to do some critical thinking and perhaps some math, some analysis and comparison. And they know that some people will not do that, some people will not pay attention. If they run out of tokens they will just buy some more. If they want equipment they will just buy it, or get their mothers to do so.
But a direct and clear view of just what is going on is the last thing Cryptic wants. A bureaucratic maze of multiple currencies to make the short attention span crowd pay moar is just the ticket.
Make no mistake, if you are playing this game to get ahead through its currencies, your competition is not Orcs or Dragons.
Its Cryptic.
You seriously think the US Government would have a problem if Cryptic and PWE sold digital gold instead of Zen?
So by that logic, forums where people trade currency across games are in violation of Federal Law?
You were expressing the fact that you have an opinion that they are a "pointless fabrication". You obviously expressed an opinion in the OP.
Now that makes sense.
What??? It has nothing to do with being unable to issue currency, since they would not be 'issuing' anything :S It's a well known marketing ploy that people tend to spend more if the "money" or in-game currency is not associated with a direct currency (ie: using zen instead of dollars). Many companies do this...Zen points, Turbine points, Microsoft points, etc etc etc Some other games do allow you to buy items directly such as Guild Wars 2
AKA "I like to hear myself talk, I like to speak in my clever british accent. I frequently smell my own farts and feel sophisticated when I argue over semantics and other petty things. Mahaha."
A true scholar aren't you.
But your fair tokens are not legal tender. Big difference between dollars or euros and fair tokens.
Nothing in Neverwinter is "legal tender".
But then neither are in game gold and AD
Ninja'd by quorforged.
Exactly!
Where does Gold come from? It just drops from mobs you kill, is given as quest reward (which can be solo'd) and you get some more from vendoring the items that drop. You can solo farm it. You get a whole bunch of it just in the process of leveling. In fact, a bot could earn a lot of Gold quite easily.
Where does AD come from? It comes from running dungeons, doing skirmishes, and competing in PvP (all via dailies). I suppose you could add trading on the AH to that list, but technically no AD is being created there... in fact, some AD is destroyed in every transaction via the AH tax. But still, from a personal perspective, you can make AD by trading. All of these things require player to player interaction (even if it's impersonal).
Someone else said they feel like this system was made for Gold farmers / traders. I think it's quite the other way around. Gold is so abundant and has such limited uses that it's nearly worthless. And AD cannot be farmed in the traditional sense. At least not effectively. Besides, players can effectively and "officially" buy AD for real-life currency using the Zen Exchange. As far as I can see, this is a system designed to inhibit the Gold farming trade (and make PWE/Cryptic money in the process, of course).