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Why is the AD:ZEN price still rising?
mconosrep
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Anyone else noticed that the AD:ZEN price has been rising over the last week or so. At first I thought it was because of the Mount/Fashion sales and also the announcement that Cryptic were considering making most endgame items BoP. But both of these are no longer an issue, yet the AD:ZEN ratio is still rising. It was down to 270 I think at one stage yet is now almost 350....
Any ideas?
Any ideas?
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You might be a bit confused. Players WANT the AD to Zen ratio lower so that the AD is worth MORE. Currently the ratio is DEVALUING your AD.
Sure when you purchase Zen you want all the AD you can get. Once you buy in though you are stuck with the market.
Yes, these are the points I mentioned in the original post. But apart from the salvaging none of these are relevant now, and I doubt that the (possible) scavenging change is enough to have such a large impact.
Heh.. sounds just like the stock market (which in this case it is since it is 1 type of "stock" )
keep in mind that that AD continue to "grow" in terms of earned. Zen originate from cash only. So if people are not buying Zen (which might be the case) this can cause the Zen price to go up (Cost more AD to buy 1 Zen)
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Different people get over their panic at different rates and people that now believe AD are useless (because they cannot buy end game gear with AD and for some reason have trouble finding anything else they want on the auction house) are never going to go back to the way they were. AD are permanently devalued in their heads and some other big change will have to come around to change their mind back. Until then they are going to continue to be willing to spend AD like it has less value than it did 2 weeks ago.
Things aren't instant though. Its not going to bounce back instantly because people hoard stuff. I'm sure players on both sides have stockpiled AD and Zen to sell to new live launch players. Some bought up many AH items to resell later because of the fear of BOP so those that were selling have a surplus of AD. We've had a week of events with (I would guess) more people than normal playing. And the BOP thing isn't completely gone. They said their not doing it now because of several reasons. Its a real threat that they might work those out and add it in soon anyway.
In other words its going to take a bit for the exchange rate to settle down again. That's my opinion on it.
Yea. This can be a factor. People could have been hoarding AD and try to buy their Epic BoE later while leveling. Now, they can't and more than likely any BoE out there will be worth more since they are the "last remnant of BoE Epic" so now they are converting their AD to Zen since Zen has a static value in Zen store (There is a minor exception since there was a price drop but generally it is pretty static)
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You do realize they cancelled the BOP update?
+Some people are so desperated to sell their stuff that they're lobbying others by giving their items/zen cheaper price, sometimes much lower than people before. I experienced that by selling Tanner, first went for 24k AD, after 2 days 2nd went for 18k AD, after 5 days 3rd went for 10k AD.
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Yea. but that doesn't stop panic sell
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The previous drive (250ish to 320ish) was likely due to the mount sale.
Remember guys, there are two sides to a ratio. AD-to-Zen increasing doesn't necessarily mean AD is losing value. It can just as well mean Zen is gaining value. Gotta consider context.
I'd been waiting for it to reach about 250:1, and it was baaaarely getting there, then they announced the sale, with permanent price drops immediately afterward. It went up because people are buying up all the cheap Zen to get at the sale.
It's too early to start calling doom and gloom on launch day, people. It's not because everyone's leaving. After the sale, the ratio will go down again.
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But until then, I'm gonna keep monitoring the Zen/AD Market and eventually stock up on more AD in case they do start adding tons of new epics at the AH!
If they don't, they're not gonna make enough money. There's no way this game could live on vanity items alone. Most players don't care about dyes, mounts, pets and costumes. They care about their character's stats and how powerful they can get!
Also I don't see why people care if a game becomes Pay2Win because almost all MMORPGs are Pay2Win! The only difference in between Neverwinter's Beta and other MMORPGs is that Cryptic gets all the money from people who Pay2Win! But in other MMORPGs, people buy gold form 3rd party websites to become better players! See the difference? In WoW, people will buy gold from a 3rd party website and make the website richer, not Blizzard! But in Neverwinter, all Cryptic has to do is stock up the AH with tons of epic BOE's and they get all the money!!!! Who's gonna visit a 3rd party Neverwinter website and buy gold when you can just buy Zen and convert it to AD?
Why they do it???..dunno, maybe of boredom or to be able to show of in a couple of months with ..Hey look what i got of the other silly ppl by playing the zen exchange...millions of AD, and then what...happy??LMFAO
In short terms, half the time it folk doing this to brag lateron
I thought there weren't any current BoP Epics?
Also the suggestion that seems to have been made the most in the thread about BoP Epics was to simply make the very top tier items BoP with the rest being BoE.
Uh, yeah they can. I know of at least one other game that did that. Runes of Magic, you then had to buy un-binders from the cash shop which only went on sale in the cash shop at first every few months (usually right before or after a major patch). I can see that in the near future...
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