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It's the Economy, Stupid
SBFord
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It's the Economy, Stupid
What can be done to address Guild Wars 2's economic problems? Maybe not letting them get so bad in the first place.
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The expansion broke the economy's reliance on gold by having most rewards tied to open world map currencies that are account bound. This brings back the play style where you farm items instead of farming the most efficient way to get gold.
That being said Gems, mystic coins and crystalline ore are three resources that they need to look at again and re balance for now.
Not impressed.
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Try a MUD today at http://www.mudconnect.com/When I have time I am trading at Auction House.
(usually when I waiting for sPvP matches)
In average I am making 300-500g/weekend
And have not any problem with game economy.
In my opinion GW2 economy is one of the best in industry.
(I have some expirience with WoW traiding)
Also I even found that playing at GW2 AH is very fun and engaging!
So learn how to play at AH
btw, to OP, here is way how to convert carma to gold; why you complaining even?
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When it first launched people kept saying it would change the face of mmo's but instead what it did was exaserbate an already growing problem in the industry, in which the developers are put aside for the designs of the shareholders rather than the players.
2 months into the game you can see a total shift in the game. Loot began to become a commodity instead of a driving force to play the game, they further convoluded the loot system by nerfing loot over a 2.5 year period, they claimed they would fix the problems with the economy by making it possible for people to grind out what they need for the legendary items rather than using all RNG all the time but what they did basically was make it possible to get the precursers without ever addressing the issues that came with getting the rest of the materials together through normal gameplay, to make that precursor a legendary.
It's like putting a child's bandaid on a gun shot wound and expecting the patient to heal. It's not the solution the should have provided.
If any of you still think that there's nothing wrong with the economy then you are what's wrong with the gaming industry today. Not every genre needs to be a mobile app buy to progress microtransaction nightmare.
That is Arenanet's legacy to the mmo development history, turning the genre into a microtransaction nightmare.
I guess I'm the problem with today's gaming industry.
I paid $60 for a game, played for over a 1,000 hours. Made some gold just playing the game (I do not grind anything). Traded gold for some gems and bought extra character slots, bag slots and bank inventory. Still have over 1500 gems and 700+ gold. Could easily make 50+ gold a day IF I wanted to grind anything. I have not had a nightmare let alone a meh experience in the game.
Either we played a different version of the game or you are blowing everything way out of proportion.
Heh, maybe im playing it wrong...
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Well, as in real life, some people are extremely focused on the economy, and playing the market while the average person only dabbles in it but for the most part largely ignores it.
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When it comes to a game economy something like SWG was way more impressive to me. It had actual player run shops where everything was player made and the whole galactic market not just insert credit card in cash shop.
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the true colors of arenanet quality game design and policies showed just after release, they banned users for buying stuff from a vendor because of their F up on pricing, turning karma into chili pepper etc.
so to expect much for devs that going to punish players for thinking 2 steps ahead when it comes to economy after their f up on vendor pricing, well you just don't.
- GW2 economy has inflation? So what. It's an economy. What game (or real life economy) doesn't have currency inflation?
- Precursor Dupes was a small problem. Massive exaggeration. Now that we're seeing Precursors at <800g. Something you can acquire in a week of playing in DS. <br />
- Cash Shop skins are easily acquirable through the trading of gold. Not only that, the skins are put on the TP- Many at low prices that fluctuate based on demand.
- Gold was never meant to be an indicator of skill. The game has plenty of other skill based currencies (Karma, Guild Commendations and so on..) so its not a big deal that in theory someone can spend 4000-5000 dollars (and have done it) to buy a legendary through trading their money for gems to ingame gold. I just see it as a more money for ArenaNet to keep the game alive.
So let the people who want to absolutely have a shiny, have it. Why'd I give a ****?
- If you live your life and stop being mad at what other people have, chances are you will be so much more happier. It's wasted energy to keep torturing yourself about what you feel is fair or who should have what.
The core thing is that GW2 has a ton of skins, great dye customization, a fantastic art style and many ways to make yourself unique. The fact that I can buy a lot of cool cash shop skins that people put up on the trading post for 60-100g means that I have a lot of those skins through casual playing.
People who don't regularly play, don't understand how many skins they have put in the game. Some of them are cheap, some of them are expensive, some of them they bring back. Skins are what keeps the game alive. You can't seriously expect a massive development team like ANet to not need to earn a living. There wouldn't be a game without it.
GW2 is P2W? mega-lol;
you can not "win" with any gold or credit-card in this game
GW2 game is skillbased, not item/stats based like wow,
in spvp all items are free,
in pve your equpment does not matter almost, and accesible on AH so cheap that you can not complain at all.