Whats going on with tiny snowflakes?
Best guess is that they are used to speed level crafting. People craft to gain levels quickly and allow themselves to do key farming. It has just taken this long for the key farmers to work through the Wintersday backlog.
Best guess is that they are used to speed level crafting. People craft to gain levels quickly and allow themselves to do key farming. It has just taken this long for the key farmers to work through the Wintersday backlog.
It’s not just business as usual, taking a long time to work through the backlog.
http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/38130
Number of sell listings 1 month ago: 24.8 million
Number of sell listings 4 days ago: 24.7 million
Number of sell listings now: 9.8 million
That’s a lot of snowflakes being bought all of a sudden. Probably somebody trying to push the price up. And not doing a very good job.
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This is why i find it so surprising, dont people still have tons of the wintersday mining tools that give the tiny snowflakes? Its not like the amount of them coming into the game every day is low.
There are 2 available at over 2000 gold each. It basically took 15 million supply to be removed just to budge the price off the 2c default.
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A few days ago i saw that i had sold a few tiny snowflakes at 2c each from when i wanted to make some room in my inventory. Thought that was odd as i had seen that there was 14 million or so tiny snowflakes listed at 2c ahead of my listing. Checked the TP, they where all gone and only 3 million where now listed at 2c. That made me take notice. Though i should by up a few stacks myself and re-list higher. To my surprise they sold at 8c. Any idea whats going on?
The snowflakes come from the tools that you get during wintersday and it did not take long for them to flood the marketplace. I have to keep deleting mine as there are not a lot of uses for them. I would not be surprised if anet just nerfed a couple million in the interest of database efficiency.
Someone probably didn’t realize that these still drop from the wintersday harvesting tools and thought if they bought up all the supply they could make a profit.
People make bad investments all the time, you just don’t hear about them since they don’t advertise their failures.
Historically, we’re approaching the time of the Bazaar of the Four Winds, where we trade in a ton of trash items to get something hopefully better. That trash used to be candy corn. Right now, tiny snowflakes are the ridiculously oversupplied commodities. So I expect a bunch of players are making a bet on whether or not the Bazaar returns this year, which is looking increasingly good with Lions Arch finally getting back on its feet.
15 million snowflakes at 2c each = 3k gold. It’s possible it was done by people very intentionally. However, as someone else pointed out earlier, it’s much faster than the usual drain rate of supply, so it represents a sudden shift, not a gradual workthrough of the backlog.
I was wondering that too. I’d had 500 listed at 2c each, ever since Wintersday and then all of a sudden they all sold, all in one go.
Other times when I’ve had large amounts of crafting materials listed even when they sell quickly it’s not that quickly, it’s a few here and there over minutes or hours, this was all at once.
I think it must have been someone deliberately buying them up. I can’t imagine anyone wanted 500 for crafting.
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It only took 2 1/2 days to drain that amount. Actually it was aroun 10.9 million supply before it ticked up to 3 copper. This is what happens when players mindlessly post mats and items at whatever minimum amount the TP lets them. An enormous glut of nearly useless mats.
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Historically, we’re approaching the time of the Bazaar of the Four Winds, where we trade in a ton of trash items to get something hopefully better. That trash used to be candy corn. Right now, tiny snowflakes are the ridiculously oversupplied commodities. So I expect a bunch of players are making a bet on whether or not the Bazaar returns this year, which is looking increasingly good with Lions Arch finally getting back on its feet.
Except the bazaar was on the zephyrite ships which are currently burning in Dry Top.
Someone probably didn’t realize that these still drop from the wintersday harvesting tools and thought if they bought up all the supply they could make a profit.
People make bad investments all the time, you just don’t hear about them since they don’t advertise their failures.
or they found out those tools are getting changed to give snowflake tiers equal to the node being mined?
Except the bazaar was on the zephyrite ships which are currently burning in Dry Top.
No, it was held at Labyrinthine Cliffs, and was more based in the settlement on the ground than up in the ships.
Last year, the Zephyrites partnered with Lions Arch with the promise of aid. With the Zephyrites now laid low, and the fortunes of LA turning around, do you imagine Kiel won’t return the favor?
Divinity’s Reach has shown itself amicable for hosting festivals that have lost their home (q.v. last Wintersday).
Someone probably didn’t realize that these still drop from the wintersday harvesting tools and thought if they bought up all the supply they could make a profit.
People make bad investments all the time, you just don’t hear about them since they don’t advertise their failures.
or they found out those tools are getting changed to give snowflake tiers equal to the node being mined?
That…. would be great. Which means it will never happen.
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A few days ago i saw that i had sold a few tiny snowflakes at 2c each from when i wanted to make some room in my inventory. Thought that was odd as i had seen that there was 14 million or so tiny snowflakes listed at 2c ahead of my listing. Checked the TP, they where all gone and only 3 million where now listed at 2c. That made me take notice. Though i should by up a few stacks myself and re-list higher. To my surprise they sold at 8c. Any idea whats going on?
The snowflakes come from the tools that you get during wintersday and it did not take long for them to flood the marketplace. I have to keep deleting mine as there are not a lot of uses for them. I would not be surprised if anet just nerfed a couple million in the interest of database efficiency.
This ^.
I’ve often wondered how their DB for the TP holds up with so many entries… They need to put limits to how long something can be put up on the TP like 99.9% of all other games do.
A few days ago i saw that i had sold a few tiny snowflakes at 2c each from when i wanted to make some room in my inventory. Thought that was odd as i had seen that there was 14 million or so tiny snowflakes listed at 2c ahead of my listing. Checked the TP, they where all gone and only 3 million where now listed at 2c. That made me take notice. Though i should by up a few stacks myself and re-list higher. To my surprise they sold at 8c. Any idea whats going on?
The snowflakes come from the tools that you get during wintersday and it did not take long for them to flood the marketplace. I have to keep deleting mine as there are not a lot of uses for them. I would not be surprised if anet just nerfed a couple million in the interest of database efficiency.
This ^.
I’ve often wondered how their DB for the TP holds up with so many entries… They need to put limits to how long something can be put up on the TP like 99.9% of all other games do.
That would just bias transactions towards selling to the highest buyer.
The real problem here is creating a huge supply without creating much use for them. Their only use is low level crafting. Maybe if GW2 was a F2P with a huge number players new players joining and leaving all the time that might work but it isn’t.