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How do I buy Zen?

eyebreaker7eyebreaker7 Member Posts: 621 Arc User
edited March 2013 in General Discussion (PC)
Is there any way to buy Zen other than real money?
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  • fotzikfotzik Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    With Astral Diamonds ingame, there's an exchange where you can buy ZEN from other players using your Astral Diamonds, it's all player controlled.
  • eyebreaker7eyebreaker7 Member Posts: 621 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    I tried that but no one ever bought mine for the "recomended"price. I just posted another offer for 75 each. I guess I just have to wait now. Is there a time limit like in the AH?
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  • syberghostsyberghost Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Hero Users Posts: 2,474
    edited March 2013
    eyebreaker7 wrote: »
    I tried that but no one ever bought mine for the "recomended"price. I just posted another offer for 75 each. I guess I just have to wait now. Is there a time limit like in the AH?

    Nobody wanted to buy at the recommended price, so you went with a much worse offer? I don't think you're going to get any takers. :)

    No, there's no time limit; your AD will sit there until launch at that price. :)

    You need to look at the outstanding offers, and approach, if not match, them.
  • ranncoreranncore Member, Moderators, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 2,508
    edited March 2013
    The exchange rate is about 400AD - 1Zen right now. To put things in perspective that's 200,000AD for a raise dead scroll (500zen).

    So, yeah, you can buy Zen items by farming AD in game, but the amount of time you spend working on grinding the zen would probably be better spent working at Mcdonalds. You'd have to work half as many hours at MCD as you would at NWO to be able to afford twice as much.

    It's worth noting that the exchange rate in Star Trek Online is about 98dil - 1 zen right now. But most of the things you can buy for 500zen in that game aren't 1-time consumables like scrolls, they're account wide unlocks like shared bank slots.
  • number13deathnumber13death Member Posts: 59 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    ...so I need 400,000 AD for a greater bag of holding! With my luck I'd accomplish this only to find out that I got a bag of devouring instead.
  • daed76daed76 Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    yeah considering how bad they nerfed ad gain in game i'm hoping they are going to be lowering the zen store prices by alot..
  • syberghostsyberghost Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Hero Users Posts: 2,474
    edited March 2013
    daed76 wrote: »
    yeah considering how bad they nerfed ad gain in game i'm hoping they are going to be lowering the zen store prices by alot..

    I wouldn't expect they'll be lowering Zen store prices much between now and launch, and certainly not across the board. Most of those prices this weekend are probably pretty close to where they're going to end up. AD gain will continue being tweaked. Keep in mind that the Auction House will eventually be a source of AD, as a number of people will buy AD with Zen in order to get gear quickly. You see it less in beta, but it will happen more after launch.

    It's in PWE's best interest for the exchange rate to be as low as possible, as they derive direct income from people buying AD with Zen. They'll want to ensure AD scarcity as a result. Of course, they don't want it to be TOO scarce, or there will be no market at all, and people won't buy gear on the AH. It's a balancing act. But Zen market prices aren't driven by it in any way, because their interest there is to encourage buying Zen, not grinding AD for it.

    It is, after all, a for-profit venture employing professionals, not a bunch of folks contributing their spare time and funded by donations. Those professionals are highly sought after by other companies, and must be payed a competitive wage.
  • eyebreaker7eyebreaker7 Member Posts: 621 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    syberghost wrote: »
    Nobody wanted to buy at the recommended price, so you went with a much worse offer? I don't think you're going to get any takers. :)

    I was thinking that I was offering to buy the Zen at 75 each. No?
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  • kotlikotli Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Hero Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 577
    edited March 2013
    The in game Diamond : Zen market is basically posting an offer to buy Zen or Diamonds at X price. IE If you want to buy 2000 Zen at 100 Diamonds per Zen someone got to be selling 2000 Zen for Diamonds at 100 Diamonds:Zen.

    Given this if someone buy Zen at 400 diamonds no one going to get any Zen unless they are paying 400 or more as well.

    The big question is how much will someone pay for an ID scroll in real cash?
    An ID scroll = 800 diamonds and $1=100 Zen.
    This means at 1Zen=50 Diamonds your pricing an ID scroll at $0.16 and at 1Zen:500 diamonds its $0.016. 400 diamonds:Zen means an ID scroll = $0.02.
  • zagemoggazagemogga Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Hero Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    I put 2,000,000 Astral Diamonds up for 4,000 Zen the first day. Took ~2-3 hours and it was all gone, I took my 4000 Zen and bought the Armored Howler.

    This is beta-weekend and everyone knew the Zen will be restored, so my hopes are not up this will happen again :)
  • eyebreaker7eyebreaker7 Member Posts: 621 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    If I put up 200000 AD in 1 group will the have to buy all 200000 or can they buy however much of it that they want?
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  • sjirosjiro Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Hero Users Posts: 124 Bounty Hunter
    edited March 2013
    I'm making roughly 600 zen per day from the 'Earn Zen' feature through Perfect World - spending around 30 minutes to an hour each day filling out offers and surveys.

    http://offers.perfectworld.com/

    You could give it a try. Just be prepared to be inundated with tons of spam mail if you don't create a new email account for all of it.
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  • bluedarkybluedarky Member Posts: 1,232 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Chances are that like in STO and CO the primary sources of AD will be end game content.

    Hence why not a lot of AD were seen over the beta as only a few people would have reached the level cap.
  • savadioussavadious Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    sjiro wrote: »
    I'm making roughly 600 zen per day.

    YOU ARE A GOD !
    I always forget about this !
    :P
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