Orb sale and the consequences of this action.

Burnout - Harshlands wrote: »

Gold IS currency. Think of coins and gold as the currencies of two different nations: the pve farmer nation, and the boutique nation. If something happens to increase the value/desireability of boutique items, more players will "import" items from the boutique nation, thus increasing the demand + price for their currency.

The pve farmers nation is just having problems because their government is **** and keeps printing money, placing them inside mobs, and having them shower coins when they die, as well as handing out massive amounts of free coin to landowners.

Now we just need a battle slogan for the PvE farmer nation. b:thanks

FistToDeath - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Oh, sure. Ofc I do believe you. I just use "GM" as a short for "PWI employee" (and I also use "Dev" as short for "Wanmei employee").

Sorry about that.

Anyway, marketing team probably should use some feedback from the GMs to know what's more in demand in the servers on average. Probably a hard task, since there are quite a few servers with different ages, so what everyone needs isn't exactly the same.

Please block that guy you responded to. I was a GM that worked in the F2P MMORPG industry who also did "marketing", I did press tours, community management, uploaded media to video game websites, and helped direct a PR firm on how to market our game. So yes, GM's do marketing too, or more precisely, a GM's role is determined by the company, not by a random forum user that should be blocked.

JanusZeal - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Please block that guy you responded to. I was a GM that worked in the F2P MMORPG industry who also did "marketing", I did press tours, community management, uploaded media to video game websites, and helped direct a PR firm on how to market our game. So yes, GM's do marketing too, or more precisely, a GM's role is determined by the company, not by a random forum user that should be blocked.

omg janus was a dirty gm too b:cry

Burnout - Harshlands wrote: »

We're actually not really running out of resources. Not even close. As oil production technology progresses, those same engineers are now realizing the sheer amount of energy still available.

In the next 10-20 years the US will actually become one of the top producers of oil in the world. Why? Because by some chance we happen to be sitting on one of the largest shale oil reserves in the world, and technology right now is on the cusp of being able to access all of this oil cheaply. We will have enough reserves to probably last us another 800 years.

By then, who knows what else we can come up with?

I am not only talking about oil and neither am i talking about only 10-20 years. Many resources are bound to run out during this century, some vitally important one like phosphates (for fertilising our crops) are to run out in the first half of this century.

Try to look at the big picture:

We have a planet full of resources. We have humanity starting some 2.500.000years ago. 10.000 years ago, relatively recent really, humanity starts farming and begins to change from something insigniciant into a race that can control its food suply and growth.
We do not utilize this control but grow mindless. Humanity grows exponentially.
Last century or 2, we started to really lift of and use those resources, again at an exponentially growing rate. We are at a key point in the history of this world. For many millenia the world has been evolving in a sustainable way. When something was not sustainable, it died out. Now we are in this tiny blib of time on universal scale depleting the world of its resources and polluting the environment. Population is still growing exponentially and all those people still want more and more luxuries.

Obviously that cannot go on. Surely there are solutions:
-recycling
-getting resources from space
-sustainable energy

We are working on these changes and we will continue to do so. We simply have to. Implementing these changes is a huge burden on our economy though. All effort we put into researching and implementing all this new stuff is not energy put into creating the luxuries and consumables we all want. Thus, we will have to do a step back. This is the process of the 21th centure and that it has started is clear to anyone who opens his eyes and looks around him.
Somewhere down the line in the futre we will have solved these problems and we will again go into an uptrend of prosperity. I think that will be the second half of this century though. And i also think it will be only for a select few. Already out of 7 billion people in this world only 1 billion do live in prosperity. That i think will only get worse.

Reading tip: Ishmael - Daniel Quin
Dangerous exponentials

TIL pwi community is full of economy professors and economy nobel prize winners.

I have enough Nobel prizes to use them as firewood.

Though the way this topic drags around amuses me so do carry on.

Burnout - Harshlands wrote: »

Nope it's just full of people who think everything is doomed. Basically a bunch of depressive emos posting on forums.

DW, everything will be okay.

I like you, you seem nice.

OPKossy wrote: »

I have enough Nobel prizes to use them as firewood.

Though the way this topic drags around amuses me so do carry on.

Really? Because they're worth a million USD a piece. So how bout you buy us all a few orbs as holiday presents, since you're more loaded than Santa.

wiktor99rr wrote: »

i know this conspiracy theory looks quite good on paper but lets refrain from such unofficial plots

unofficial is not the word i would use, I would say this whole idea was planed from day 1. Give eveyone 10* orbs and people would charge for 11* n 12*. Ill just bet that the original plan did not have a backup plan in case something went wrong. Standard and it did no backup plan.

Hum ay... ill give them one thing will make them some money however this plays out. Just a shame they cant get things to work correctly.

I do have 1 question tho... last time they tried to put 11* n 12* orbs in cash shop it caused server problems... has this been fixed or are we due to the same mistakes over and over. It struggles to me that a company wont learn from its mistakes.

heero200 wrote: »

I do have 1 question tho... last time they tried to put 11* n 12* orbs in cash shop it caused server problems... has this been fixed or are we due to the same mistakes over and over. It struggles to me that a company wont learn from its mistakes.

There never was a problem with the orbs, it was all smoke and mirrors

Archaius - Dreamweaver wrote: »

wait for the sale to end, it only lasts one day. Gold will readjust. next.

Actually this was not even necessary to wait that long.
+11-12 orbs sale is still on, and current gold price on Morai is between 2,3M and 2,5M.
I asked to some guildmates and they told me that this was the kind of prices that were at the auction quite all day long. So it might be a little above what we had on the previous weeks, but not that much and this is far from the 3,5M announced in the opener post.

I guess some people tried to increase the prices when they noticed the sales, but that didn't last long...

karmelia wrote: »

You are quite an optimistic one to think Earth will still be an habitable planet in 800 years at the rate the human race is destroying it at the moment.

Pretty sure that meteor 65 million years ago and the massive ice ages that followed caused more damage to the planet than humans ever caused. Gee I wonder how Earth got through that.