Guild Wars 2

goes where exactly? And does that ‘cut’ go towards anything even remotely useful to the player?
Man, it feels like the excise tax on my car.

Its the main gold sink, almost all MMOs have gold sinks in the game in order to keep the economy in check. Otherwise, gold will become useless.

It goes towards keeping players from listing a single piece of Jute for 100g, just to wait for someone to accidentally click “buy” or something.

Or what ZilentNight said. (Cool name, BTW)

That money is effectively being burned, which in the end is the most useful thing to be done with it for the player in general.

Since Evon Gnashblade is the owner of the BLTC, it would be awesome if Evon could use the gold to rebuild LA or something.

DresdenAllblack.1249:

goes where exactly? And does that ‘cut’ go towards anything even remotely useful to the player?
Man, it feels like the excise tax on my car.

It’s 5% that gets taken when you post something. This gets taken from your wallet.
10% gets taken from when you sell it. This gets taken out of the proceeds of the sale.

its a gold sink it vanishes for you being safely able to sell/buy items without being scammed.

Blood Mist Mirage.5610:

Since Evon Gnashblade is the owner of the BLTC, it would be awesome if Evon could use the gold to rebuild LA or something.

Are you kidding? He’s probably the only reason it’s getting rebuilt. With a snazzy new air strip!
Certainly had nothing to do with Kiel. :\

Physics says that it becomes a tiny amount of heat in the server room as it’s destroyed.

It is a gold sink put in place to punish people who want to sell stuff only to be undercut by richer people who don’t mind taking their items down and relisting every time somebody else tries to make a little money. Basically, the gold disappears from the game.

It goes directly into the coffers of Evon Gnashblade.

From there he finances all armor repair stations and personnel, funds the Consortium (under the table of course), and whatever other nefarious schemes he is involved in.

DresdenAllblack.1249:

Man, it feels like the excise tax on my car.

Yup. That’s the point.

It literally IS a tax.

Mmm…if the value of the gold coin becomes less than zero, maybe a dye won’t be 290g.

It goes to Colin Johanson’s personal account. HE IS SWIMMING IN GOLD!§

This is a scientific theory. Which is valid until proven wrong.

The gold taken by the TP, and gold taken by other gold sinks like waypoints and NPC merchants doesn’t go anywhere, it’s simply deleted from the game.

But this is actually a good thing because it (somewhat) balances out the gold that appears from no where any time a player finishes an event or loots coin from an enemy.

Unless someone creates a game that actually has a complete, working economy that includes the NPCs and enemies, where that ettin has to have earned the gold you loot from his corpse and crafted, found or bought the axe you get with it, and where NPC merchants go and spend the gold they get from selling things to players, this is an essential system.

The alternative is to have gold constantly pouring into the economy as players get it as drops and then just going round and round between them. Which means it keeps building up and we get massive inflation and absurd situations where the most basic items cost hundreds of gold.