Anyway, the point people are probably trying to make about the inflation thing is that in general, people are worried that the cost of a precursor they want will rise faster than they can make money.
Precisely. The supply vs demand of the said precursors are so skewed that it depends on what top price the few gamers with huge gold pool can afford. And the few gamers with those huge gold pools will be getting bigger as there are more avenues to increase that wealth. Meaning to say if one is in fact saving up gold to buy off TP and hypothetically starts off at 20% of the precursor price tag at that point in time, he/she needs start continuously generate gold at a rate that will offset the price hike which is, as previous posters had termed it, a shifting goalpost. And this goalpost is not “kept in check” by the general wealth of the gamers but determined by gamers with already huge gold pools. Not to mention that it can be easily manipulated since supply is low.
To me buying off TP is not really an option seeing the way things are. It pretty much needs me to farm gold in an absolute (or close to) optimal way, otherwise I will never be able to outpace the price hike. The other alternative is, of course, RNG related like MF or drops. And the issue of RNG has already been discussed. I will probably carry on doing the MF method but only because it is imo option that is most available to me. But in all likelihood, I don’t think it will be a particularly pleasant experience…
(edited by mosspit.8936)
Ok it is working for me now. Thanks ANet and cheers!
It is still bugged as of the time of this post (Maguuma srver). Submitted an ingame support plus screenshot of the affected area. Hope this gets rectified soon.