Guild Wars 2

As someone who doesn’t care about gold since there is really nothing in game to buy with gold other than legendaries which are out of reach of many players, I always wonder why gold farming or gold rewards always get nerfed but TP flipping stays the same.

Who cares if some players decide to farm all day? isn’t that way most MMO’s are played? The rate that gold is obtained by farming is a lot less than TP flipping. With good TP flipping you can get 1k-2k golds with each patch if you invest in the right place. But gold farming is really harmless as I see it. so what if a champ train gets you 10 golds an hour? is the game’s inflation is that bad that a 10 gold per hour farming will mess it up?

I’d say do something about TP flipping and leave the gold farmers alone….

A player sitting on 300k golds can have much more effect on the market’s inflation that the players farming 10 golds an hour 40 hours a week.

Well to be fair TP flippers aren’t creating money (instead moving it about.. moving income from other players to themselves) but farmers do. But still your point stands. Why are people who are actually playing the game continually having their money-making ways nerfed yet the flippers don’t have to worry about this. ?

Its like league if something is used to much it gets nerfed. Anet is doing the same garbage riot is…. For someone trying to get a legendary and doing it by farming, it sucks so bad… I dont know why i came back to this game when Anet makes it impossible to do anything

Gold farming is a gold input into the economy which would cause inflation if left unchecked.

TP Flipping actually drains gold out of the economy due to the 15% payed in listing and transaction fees.

So in the case of Gold farming we are creating currency; in the case of TP flipping we are destroying currency and changing the hands it is in.

Tp flippers take money out of the system by paying trading post fees over and over again.
Champ trains actively put more money into the system.
One side merely redistributes the wealth, while the other side effectively forces other players to grind in order to catch up with the inflation.
Sure, the prices are dictated by the tp flippers, but at the same time, those prices will only remain that high as long as there are people with money to burn.

Tp flipping = Money changing hands. Not creating new money.
“Person A” buys a cheap item from “person B”, Sells for high price to “person C”.
So “person B” gets less money for his item while “person C” pays more and wastes some amount of his money. “Person A” collects their “wasted” money and becomes rich personally. That gold was already in game, not created. Person B and C indirectly sent their gold to “person A”. Plus Person A and B destroys some of the game’s gold by paying 15% tax.

But, farmers are the ones that create new money from “nothing” and cause inflation.
So trading is a nice and harmless way to make money without inflating the game.