Guild Wars 2

Vlad Morbius.1759:

John Smith.4610:

I cannot go too far into our process, but we often set goals; in an expanding market though there is a split between preventative and reactionary measures. If you read my last blog you may remember one of my favorite aphorisms, "Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.”

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties, In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain. This is one hell of a gamble, especially when you consider that the vast majority of people involved in this complex in game economy are not students of economics nor do they understand the consequences of monopolization and their closest interpretation of Sherman would be a tank. You sir may gamble the future of this economy based on your machinations but at the end of the day many ordinary people could well be your undoing.
Some, no most are here to play the game not to play the market. To continue down this path will most assuredly cost your company many of their real life resources at which time an economist will be the last person they need. Consider that while you’re playing economic dungeon master.

I love this post and agree 100%. The out of control ego from most of the Devs who post on these forums is truly mind boggling.

Would have been nice if Arena.net advertised this game for what it really is….a stock market simulator. The only people who seem to be having any fun in this game are the TP barons, and they don’t actually ‘play’ the game. So many things in this game have been such a let down. =(

Delolith.9645:

Wolfgang Michael.8217:

Delolith.9645:

Darmikau.9413:

Delolith.9645:

Darmikau.9413:

Basically back to where they were before the quick supply increase.

Ecto and materials have continued to go up (though some T6s have leveled).

Legendaries, especially the greatswords, currently cost 100-200g more than before fixes intended to lower their cost were implemented.

Would be nice to not be completely left in the dark on this. The closest we’ve gotten to any real news is “we’re working on it,” and “We’re going to run some data.” The latter was in response to the currently horrid drop rates of rares on Cursed Shore and other locations, where any players that has farmed there for more than two hours will immediately tell you they’re getting 1/4th the normal amount of rares and that champions are still not dropping loot even when properly tagged.

What exactly are you looking for here….seriously. Do you expect for the legendary to have a “fixed” price fullstop? No, the market goes up and down. There is a reason some of us predicted the market and started purchasing our first Charged Lodestones even before we had exotic gear.

Learn to predict/estimate/calculate rather than complaining in the forum. You can use your brain also in your time gaming rather than only when you are working.

The fact that there is a market for having an optimal time for obtaining a Legendary is part of the problem.

Whether or not I want to go for a legendary should not have “be able to manipulate and exploit the market” as a pre-requisite. Yet right now it’s the most important factor – more than how much you’ve played the game, or explored, or done anything related to something other than the economy.

Legendary prices are currently increasing at about 50% of the rate I’m farming gold. For every 10g I get on Cursed Shore, some part of the legendary has gone up so that it costs at least 5g more. Do you think that’s alright? Because I’m sure Anet doesn’t.

I farmed yesterday 2 hours in the new island and I got 18 Powerful bloods, 40 Potent bloods, 2 ectos, 50+ karka and around 60-70s in vendor trash. How exactly you cannot make as much as the legendary goes up?

Also you think that ANet thinks that the chase for the legendary shouldn’t be like this? That is why they were adamant on that they want less than 5% of the population to have one? If they want to keep it like this there has to be a bottleneck…guess what. You just found it.

Edit- It was 18 Powerful bloods not 10.

I hope you loose all your gold on one of the smart prediction of yours.

I don’t play the market at this stage of the game. I predicted what would each thing mean at the early stages. So unfortunatelly your wish doesn’t hold any water.

People like you are why this game is going to fail like every other Korean MMO brought West unless A.Net makes major changes. This “F-you Got Mine!” attitude that is so prevalent is just tiring.