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iliveforpvp
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Hello all,
As most of you know, the ZEN exchange has been terribly and horribly broken for well over a month now. This has had countless negative effects on the game that were not foreseen. The latest issue is that the lack of Coalescent Wards has caused the pricing of perfect enchants to DOUBLE over the past few weeks. These kinds of effects are going to continue as long as people do not have access to ZEN.
Can we please stop ignoring this and fix the system? It is a constant and unnecessary frustration in the side of the community.
Thanks
As most of you know, the ZEN exchange has been terribly and horribly broken for well over a month now. This has had countless negative effects on the game that were not foreseen. The latest issue is that the lack of Coalescent Wards has caused the pricing of perfect enchants to DOUBLE over the past few weeks. These kinds of effects are going to continue as long as people do not have access to ZEN.
Can we please stop ignoring this and fix the system? It is a constant and unnecessary frustration in the side of the community.
Thanks
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for me https://billing.arcgames.com/en/ is still working.
Also, if you are referring to the ZAX, it is working. It's no longer "I want that toy and I want it NAUUU!" - you have to plan ahead, but it certainly works to get ZEN, no problem, via the ZAX.
Patience is a virtue.
And if you are in immediate need of a Coal Ward, it can be obtained without ZEN at the free market for 548k atm in the AH. (=free market and pricing there, which might be what you want!)
And rising. And mod 4 is coming up. Do we really want to bury our heads until it takes weeks or months to carry out?
Because, i've been seeing quite the opposite. Everything from new crack downs on bots to several new events and reward programs aimed at either draining AD from the economy, or getting people to buy Zen directly. I see, what seems to be a pretty solid effort to try to indirectly influence and correct the Zax imbalance.
What more would you want? Do you really want them to fiddle with the Zax directly? What would you have them do? Change the limits? Start buying peoples offers themselves? Flood the market with new Zen, to devalue it? Any one of these options could cause more harm then good. Any of of these options sets a horribly bad precedent. Any one of these options should honestly scare the heck out of any reasonable player. You cant remove the players, from a player run system, without destroying confidence in the market.
WTB Class Reroll please
myles08807 said, "Back in my day, we didn't have any of this fancy Mulhorand gear while we were leveling . . . we walked uphill both ways while dying once every five seconds while leveling, and we liked it fine!" . . . Now, get off my lawn, you kids!"
pointsman said, "I don't rue the game. In fact I don't feel any regret for the game at all."
looomis said, "I don't like people changing to alts and then bragging about their mains like schizophrenic role players."
http://nw-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?678051-Coalescent-Wards/page6
I fortold this but nobody listen .
I remember, I didn't think it could happen this bad but it did.
I agree i stoped to sell my zen too.
First becuse F2P players always nerf my build and there is no option to regain my investment (companions/artifacts).
They think wee dont need advantage aka Legend arti or purple companions so i dont let them take advantage to respec or buy cheap ward. If any zen seller do the same they will respect us cuz we are the ones how actual let them to play the game truly free.
So i just wait until coal ward prize is up to 1 -2 mill each or PWE increase the ad/zen to min 1/1000-2000
selling keys? no.
selling lv 10 account with keys in? yes. this.
They didn't do the one simple thing, that would be the best if not the only effective solution: they didn't introduce working, lasting AD sinks. They don't even need to create new items, adjusting prices of currently existing ones would work just fine.
That would eliminate the problem and unlike some other ideas presented on forum (removing cap, making all zen items BtA) would make players happier rather than more frustrated.
Not "broken", just backlogged. There's a big difference between those two words.
The first wrong assumption is that it's broken. It's not, there is nothing to "fix". I think it's working exactly the way they want it to. With a backlog like this more people will buy Zen for $ than before.
Secondly, they haven't done a thing to reduce the backlog (notice I didn't say fix). Most likely it's because any reduction of the backlog will reduce revenue from my first point.
Note: cracking down on 3rd party, Binding keys and Binding wards have close to 0 impact on reducing any backlog.
He is half right. Binding wards did contribute to an increase the prices, but it was mainly fixing the old refinement window that caused a cascading increase in the costs of all refining, close to doubling the costs of rank 5s and up.
While they needed to fix that, their timing was <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font> poor. Just like in the real world you don't want interests rates close to 0, but at the same time you don't "fix" it till after the recession is over.
This is the big problem right here. People are ABLE to bypass the zax. Make the zen store bound, and since keys are now bound, unbind the trade bar coals.
Yes, lets punish the ppl who invest real money or are able to think 5 days ahead, bc I want my goodie NOW...
Don't see how that affects weapon enchants. The old system is more costly if you use todays coal ward prices, but cheaper on the low end and about the same for perfects on the highest end. The only use of the old refining system would be on the normal kind of enchants. Likewise any change in coal wards wouldn't affect regular enchant prices.
I cannot even begin to count the number of stacks of 99 Rank 5's I purchased at 120K-170k AD. Without that, refining points are way more expensive. The coal wards going from 200K to 400K+ caused prices of perfects to go up about 2-3mil AD. The shortage of Rank 5's is pushing it further. Also, Rank 5's were used to refine artifacts.
Right before Mod 3, Rank 5 AD per RP was around 1.5, with Rank 6 being around 3, Rank 7 at 9/RP.
So that extremely undervalued Rank 5 AD/RP was allowing everyone to build purple artifacts and greater/perfect enchants for much lower cost than they should have been able to.
It needed to be fixed, but it's a shame newer players are screwed by the fixes.
Rank 5s were great for matching enchantments and artifact. For weapon/armour enchants you were generally better of using peridots which usually cost less and had about the same as rp as rank 5s without the match bonus. Now everything is expensive so not sure what the effective thing to pick is.
for all of those who think current prices are not fair , check this 1 out.
it gives approx prices of there price and what u r paying and how u can not pay those ridicolous prices
it will never change to that much, because that would cause AD inflation and you would start seeing 10 million AD for a coal ward on AH. Same applies for every zen item that can be sold, the price would go up proportionaly. Whether it's 500 or 5000 the value will be the same. It's how economy works. The more things change the more they stay the same