In GW2, Trading Post plays you!
What happened to silk price?
Anet doesn’t say “Let’s start a collection achievement, and increase an Exotic item that only drops from one boss to 200+ Gold”. Nope. Anet says “Let’s start a collection achievement, and make certain items highly desirable”.
But they do know going in that the collection achievement will raise the cost of that item to 200+ gold, they know that going in. And if they wanted to blunt that then they could announce that the drop rate was massively increased, such that while the price might fluctuate in the short term, it would soon enough settle down to about the same price it started at.
Every decision they make has magnitudes more market influence than any decision any player makes, the market reacts the way the market reacts.
This is the only way players can make money by speculating on the TP in the first place. They guess at what ANet might do in future, and make predictions about how players will react to those changes. The uncertainty is more in guessing what ANet will do than in what the players will do, because player behavior is 99% predictable. Do you imagine that a TP trader acting with 100% knowledge of upcoming patches could not (with ANet’s blessing), make a massive fortune with almost no risk of failure?
As someone who I imagine engages in a little speculation himself, which information would you rather have leading into a patch with absolute certainty, would you rather know A: exactly which of three materials ANet would be halving the drop rate of, but having to guess how players would react based on your prior experience in the markets, or B: knowing exactly how the players would react to each of those three materials dropping but not knowing with certainty which ANet intended to drop?
ANet “influences” player behavior in the same way that the rails “influence” drivers behavior in the Tomorrowland Speedway.
“If you spent as much time working on [some task] as
you spend complaining about it on the forums, you’d be
done by now.”
you spend complaining about it on the forums, you’d be
done by now.”
I think what we have here gentlemen/ladies is an “agree to disagree” conclusion.
To summarize the squabbling in the last two pages:
One side says “player driven, Anet influenced”.
The other side says “Anet driven, player influenced”.
That is all.
“Be like water” – Bruce Lee
Back to the OP, it appears that profession loot on Necromancer is bugged, and extra silk isn’t entering the economy at the same rate as mithril and leather.
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I think what we have here gentlemen/ladies is an “agree to disagree” conclusion.
Kind of. When knowledge hits stupid, knowledge can’t break stupid with more knowledge (because stupid doesn’t respect knowledge), and stupid can’t break knowledge with more stupid (because knowledge doesn’t respect stupid); they just kind of bounce off each other.
It’s not so much an “agree to disagree” conclusion as “we are incapable of even speaking the same language” kind of conclusion.
That’s why a majority of argument on mmorpg forum end up being an argument on definition. Because people arn’t speaking the same language.
I always hope people could just stop arguing about definition, and just discuss the context.
I think what we have here gentlemen/ladies is an “agree to disagree” conclusion.
Kind of. When knowledge hits stupid, knowledge can’t break stupid with more knowledge (because stupid doesn’t respect knowledge), and stupid can’t break knowledge with more stupid (because knowledge doesn’t respect stupid); they just kind of bounce off each other.
It’s not so much an “agree to disagree” conclusion as “we are incapable of even speaking the same language” kind of conclusion.
That’s why a majority of argument on mmorpg forum end up being an argument on definition. Because people arn’t speaking the same language.
I always hope people could just stop arguing about definition, and just discuss the context.
Most arguments on gaming forums cannot be won, so people have to resort to using technicalities to justify their points.
As u know im pro. ~Tomonobu Itagaki
This is an mmo forum, if someone isn’t whining chances are the game is dead.
This is an mmo forum, if someone isn’t whining chances are the game is dead.
That’s why a majority of argument on mmorpg forum end up being an argument on definition. Because people arn’t speaking the same language.
If someone is bringing up arguments about definition they don’t understand the argument. It’s not about semantics. You aren’t arguing to find truth.
It’s a chest beating contest where ‘I am right’ is the only axiom.
There’s no way you can beat that. So stop trying. Just throw peanuts.