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Hi guys, I have some questions for the game:
1. Zen market? The cost of Zen keeps rising, when does it come down? Do the devs do anything to regulate the Zen exchange?
2. Auction House? Could you make more Epics available in the Auction House as well as PVP gear? Would be great to able to buy more stuff on the AH. I mean maybe the devs could use maintenance accounts to provide fresh gear to allow people to buy from the AH...
3. PVP? I know we have private queue but would it also be better if you could see who are your potential team mates before the game commence from Public queues? I say this because I keep getting paired up with people whom do not communicate properly and would rather disassociate from them. A prelaunch info screen while deciding to accept or decline the match proposal would be ideal, thanks!
I hope the devs look into these, any new interesting suggestions or ideas about what I have asked is welcome...thanks!
1. Zen market? The cost of Zen keeps rising, when does it come down? Do the devs do anything to regulate the Zen exchange?
2. Auction House? Could you make more Epics available in the Auction House as well as PVP gear? Would be great to able to buy more stuff on the AH. I mean maybe the devs could use maintenance accounts to provide fresh gear to allow people to buy from the AH...
3. PVP? I know we have private queue but would it also be better if you could see who are your potential team mates before the game commence from Public queues? I say this because I keep getting paired up with people whom do not communicate properly and would rather disassociate from them. A prelaunch info screen while deciding to accept or decline the match proposal would be ideal, thanks!
I hope the devs look into these, any new interesting suggestions or ideas about what I have asked is welcome...thanks!
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For the exact same reasons they wont just add stuff to the Auction house. Do you really want Cryptic competing with players over loot sales? Or even worse, offering loot for sale rather then as drops. You know, something the community has all but been begging for. This is a no win for Cryptic that they would completely avoid.
So let us agree to disagree, the auction house really could be more newbie friendly instead of being unregulated by player control.
2. I personally miss the BoE gear from dungeons. I'm not entirely sure all the reasons why they did away with them, other than the reason that @magenubbie pointed out. You should have to play at least some to get geared. However, I wish there were even more variety of gear available.
3. While I understand your reasoning for the PvP changes, I think that it would have too much potential for trolling and abuse.
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Every zone has some type of currency in the form of "bounties" every campaign has currency in the form of lore, cult secrets, etc.. All they need is one game currency. Zen should not even exist. If I want to pay cash money for an item, they should have a cash money value market. But they want to put on there the Purple Dragon Mount costs 3000 Zen not $30 US.
I continue to play this game off and on, but for the love of God, would some CEO at Cryptic please send your people back to school on Econ101.
Just killing time...
To get 1 Trans Dread, you need 8 lesser enchants, plus 9 Cwards and a buttload of RP. You can earn the RP in game, but the lesser Dreads and Cwards - even if you bought them on the AH - someone had to spend $$$ to get them initially, and put them into the AH.
Assuming some buyers get the void locket on discount due to various reasons, let's say that's 8 voids at approx. $20 each, plus 9 Cwards at approx $9 each (allowing for some random drops that are "free")...1 Trans Dread is worth about $250 US, give or take a dime or two.
So - Cryptic is regulating the exchange by creating a new item that is better than other items of the same type, and which can only be acquired via Zen Market. Hence the increased demand for Zen.
And as they've created new demand for Zen, it's also true that the devs have devalued AD by pretty much wiping out the botters ability to generate boatloads of RP, so no more 99 item blue level RP in the AH.
And as others have noted, the AH is supposed to be by players / for players. PVP gear is usually not sellable, and most of the best Epic level gear is also not sellable (any more). Again - Cryptic's way of controlling the market. There are exceptions - like if you happen to be in a level 12 guild and can create masterwork equipment...my guild is at level 5 at the moment - I'm not holding my breath on that masterwork stuff still being BiS when we finally get to 12. I'm sure Cryptic will have developed a new "monetization" strategy by then that includes nerfing guild equipment.
They always do.
The PVP concept of seeing who your team mates are should be looked into. I always seem to get players that quit when the margin of winning and losing a PVP match is still possible to catch up. I want to ignore players that give up when the game is not over... sometimes I get good team mates from random public matchings but for the love of God, most of the players that I match up with do not do things right for Public PVP. They just stand at the camp fire waiting for something to happen sometimes, its so ridiculous!
It will never come back down unless we are GIVEN another source of ad generation.
Better yet, no bind.