The funny part is that the currency sellers are, more than likely, making more RL money off their sales everyday than Cryptic is off their ZEN sales since the change. Appears that the "Peter Principle" clearly apples to whomever made the decision to execute this change.
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santralafaxMember, NW M9 PlaytestPosts: 2,896Arc User
AD costs more for Zen buyers now. Why would we buy less AD for RL$ when the game flagrantly cut us off at 24K in-game. Double slap in the face.
AD costs more for Zen buyers now. Why would we buy less AD for RL$ when the game flagrantly cut us off at 24K in-game. Double slap in the face.
probably because alot of the "big ticket items ( non enchant)" are 1/3 to 1/2 of what they were last weekend. while zen has only dropped 15% or so. enchants are slowly falling too. and will drop like a rock once the gmop price change occurs( at least sub r11).
Botters are profiting from this whole mess... while the normal players just have to deal with the fallout.
How are botters going to profit? Without the enormous amount of AD created via Leadership, they're botting up enchants far faster than people can buy them. I don't know if you've noticed, but the price on R4 and R5 enchantments has absolutely plummeted. Stacks of R4's were 900 AD this morning. A few more weeks of this, and the supply is going to be outrageous and the enchants they're farming will be essentially worthless.
Plus the only reason bots exist in the first place is because players are buying AD from 3rd party sites...if players didn't buy from them, they wouldn't be in the game.
Botters are profiting from this whole mess... while the normal players just have to deal with the fallout.
How are botters going to profit? Without the enormous amount of AD created via Leadership, they're botting up enchants far faster than people can buy them. I don't know if you've noticed, but the price on R4 and R5 enchantments has absolutely plummeted. Stacks of R4's were 900 AD this morning. A few more weeks of this, and the supply is going to be outrageous and the enchants they're farming will be essentially worthless.
Plus the only reason bots exist in the first place is because players are buying AD from 3rd party sites...if players didn't buy from them, they wouldn't be in the game.
meanwhile you could get twice to 3 times the ad from a botter than from the Zen exchange. it costs them next to nothing to bot. so 900 ad per stack that cost 1 cent worth of power to farm. it it makes them more than 1 cent they'll keep doing it. and bots have moved to other instances farming the r5's from iwp.
until it costs more to farm than to buy they'll keep at it. and if it costs more to farm than to buy the game will be dead already.
however there are methods cryptic could put in place to mitigate bots that dont involve shafting the player base. but they cost money to implement, and that obviously isnt going to happen any time soon.
edit: not sure why i bother posting. you'll just delete any negative criticism of cryptic.
Botters are profiting from this whole mess... while the normal players just have to deal with the fallout.
How are botters going to profit? Without the enormous amount of AD created via Leadership, they're botting up enchants far faster than people can buy them. I don't know if you've noticed, but the price on R4 and R5 enchantments has absolutely plummeted. Stacks of R4's were 900 AD this morning. A few more weeks of this, and the supply is going to be outrageous and the enchants they're farming will be essentially worthless.
Plus the only reason bots exist in the first place is because players are buying AD from 3rd party sites...if players didn't buy from them, they wouldn't be in the game.
More people are probably buying from them, even with the increasing prices and the AH cut, it's still more then you will get for buying ZEN and placing it into ZAX for AD.
And i don't know if you have noticed, but botters are also running dugeons, skirmishes and even PvP... just ask around.
Also it doesn't really matter for how much those low rank enchantment stacks are selling, it's just a numbers game... if they get less AD from selling, they adjust their prices for AD, or throw more bots into the farming grounds.
Not to mention, that some botters are still selling AD at the same low rate. Overall it looks like those botters know how to farm large amounts of AD without Leadership.
But let us entertain the thought, that botters are really using leadership... they could still sell RP stones and assets/resources for AD over the AH. And again it boils down to a pure numbers game, if the prices for those items go down, they just put more bots onto it.
Right now i'm just wondering how many more botters the servers will be able to handle, or when Neverdeath Graveyard Ghost Stories botting will be the reason for a server collapse...
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Plus the only reason bots exist in the first place is because players are buying AD from 3rd party sites...if players didn't buy from them, they wouldn't be in the game.
until it costs more to farm than to buy they'll keep at it. and if it costs more to farm than to buy the game will be dead already.
however there are methods cryptic could put in place to mitigate bots that dont involve shafting the player base. but they cost money to implement, and that obviously isnt going to happen any time soon.
edit: not sure why i bother posting. you'll just delete any negative criticism of cryptic.
And i don't know if you have noticed, but botters are also running dugeons, skirmishes and even PvP... just ask around.
Also it doesn't really matter for how much those low rank enchantment stacks are selling, it's just a numbers game... if they get less AD from selling, they adjust their prices for AD, or throw more bots into the farming grounds.
Not to mention, that some botters are still selling AD at the same low rate.
Overall it looks like those botters know how to farm large amounts of AD without Leadership.
But let us entertain the thought, that botters are really using leadership... they could still sell RP stones and assets/resources for AD over the AH.
And again it boils down to a pure numbers game, if the prices for those items go down, they just put more bots onto it.
Right now i'm just wondering how many more botters the servers will be able to handle, or when Neverdeath Graveyard Ghost Stories botting will be the reason for a server collapse...