Do some people have a million plat?

[goodle]

With all these so called "high rollers" and "ballers" throwing out bids of 100k on items that realistically aren't that great at all and only cost that because of there rarity. Why would someone blow away at least 2 weeks worth+ of real life just to give away all the plat they earned for 1 item such as a Thex Dagger "omfg 50 SV DISEASE!" I know I will get the same automated response "once people dinged 50 and got all there raid gear they had months of free time to farm cash". I guess all I am really trying to figure out by this is why people will literally let there life decay on Earth, just to spend a month farming cash to buy one E-cool item. I thought I had a bad obsession with this game but in comparison to these arm chair warriors throwing around 100k like its nothing, well I would be considered an extreme casual in comparison. May god have mercy on your wrists and legs in your old age....and your virginity.

[Chrushev]

Most people will millions of plat dont farm it. They play the market. Which means they can make 100k plat into 1 million plat within 30 minutes, while making out with their girlfriend, watching TV, eating dinner and clicking an occasional button.

Some people dont like questing/killing/grouping, they enjoy the economics aspect of the game, and thats all they do. All you need is a lvl 1 toon and a few plat to start.

Amount of plat does not directly correlate to amount of time spent playing.

[bwe]

http://www.phobia-fear-release.com/plutophobia.html

[goodle]

Laughing my ass off at the guy above saying he could ever make 100k in items into 1 million plat. That would just mean that the guy playing the market is some how convincing the mindless plat farming zombies to pay even more ludicrous outlandish prices. People may be stupid but I am hoping to god that the guys spending there lives grinding plat don't buy into these tards playing the market. The market is fucked enough as it is because of people up selling garbage.

[Cars]

I would love a screenshot of Bob's bank account

[goodle]

"All you need i a level 1 and a few plat to start"... Holy crap I just did that online and now I am a millionaire. Only took me one month of my time to be making 20k a week.

[goodle]

I would love a screenshot of Bob's bank account

I would love a full body screen shot of Bob in real life and the room he plays in. That would be more of a laugh than his bank account numbers.

[Cars]

And another thing. Servers need these guru's around to keep our economy stable. Every server had the elite few that control a large portion of the Money. On Rodcet Nife it was an enchanter named Alumar... That guy was like Bob on steroids

[goodle]

I also became rich with this secret technique that nobody uses out there. I go to the blackjack tables with my cash, and every time I lose I just double up. It is a fool proof plan and I all ways leave with at least 5x the amount i walked in with. I are elite .

[Chrushev]

Laughing my ass off at the guy above saying he could ever make 100k in items into 1 million plat. That would just mean that the guy playing the market is some how convincing the mindless plat farming zombies to pay even more ludicrous outlandish prices. People may be stupid but I am hoping to god that the guys spending there lives grinding plat don't buy into these tards playing the market. The market is fucked enough as it is because of people up selling garbage.

http://www.threadbombing.com/data/media/42/antoine-dodson-dumb.gif

[goodle]

Chrushev let me go find a cool image and respond to yours.

[goodle]

Just my opinion in a nut shell....http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VSrnkiWaqSQ/TJJk5Yr1RDI/AAAAAAAAAS4/6oRg86LrtFA/s1600/forever_alone_computer.jpg

[Chrushev]

Chrushev let me go find a cool GIF and respond to yours, n-igga stole my bike.

Sorry but I couldn't summarize it better than that gif. From your post it is clear that you have absolutely not an idea in the whole wide world on how economics work either in real life or in an MMO.

You asked a question in your original post, and I answered it, pointing out a simple truth that amount of money you have (i.e. 1 mil plat) does not correlate to how much you work (i.e. time spent grinding).

But with your statements you are essentially saying that a single mother with 3 jobs is dumb, and will never lose her virginity, because she has millions of dollars because she spends so much time "working".

[goodle]

I actually agree with everything you said, I actually just joined a money making website online, they gave me a free penny to start. I should be making that cold hard cash a few weeks from now. Just gotta play the market and put enough hard work into it, enough elbow grease.http://blog.wtfconcept.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/forever-alone.png

[Kassel]

There is a RL pick of Bob in the RNF thread Whos GF is hotter. the thread is not worksafe so i am not try and find it for you while i am at work. Goodle you do not sound like a smart person and most of your assumptions about this game are wrong. I bet you rent.

Buy low sell high and smile =D

[Cethin]

Yes, no one can ever make money by buying and reselling items on the market because they buy it and then resell it for the same amount?

amirite?!

[goodle]

There is a RL pick of Bob in the RNF thread Whos GF is hotter. the thread is not worksafe so i am not try and find it for you while i am at work. Goodle you do not sound like a smart person and most of your assumptions about this game are wrong. I bet you rent.

Buy low sell high and smile =D

Kassel just because you make 45k a year you don't need to brag bro, enjoy a life of mediocrity .

[Dark Knight]

I would love a full body screen shot of Bob in real life and the room he plays in. That would be more of a laugh than his bank account numbers.

Dude are you mad that you are a virgin and can't make money on EQ? Quit talking shit about people you don't know because they have what you don't. Envious little punk bitch move this into R&F already.

[Kassel]

Kassel just because you make 45k a year you don't need to brag bro, enjoy a life of mediocrity .

I dont even need 45k bro. I have a manastone i am set for life =D

[soup]

I actually agree with everything you said, I actually just joined a money making website online, they gave me a free penny to start. I should be making that cold hard cash a few weeks from now. Just gotta play the market and put enough hard work into it, enough elbow grease.
Aside from the fact that people can and do shit like this IRL, comparing the in game economy to RL is fucking retarded.

You most certainly CAN start with one plat and just buy and sell and work the market to wind up with 100k+++++

[goodle]

Dude are you mad that you are a virgin and can't make money on EQ? Quit talking shit about people you don't know because they have what you don't. Envious little punk bitch move this into R&F already.

Simma down now son, simma down. Go to your nearest walk in clinic and ask for xanax/klonopin asap. You seem on the verge.....

[Chrushev]

Goodle... you sir are full of gems.. I am glad you are contributing to the community.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v644/Duxa2/WatchaMadAtGoodle.png

[Vendar]

goodle, for a quick example, instead of spending hours and hours farming plat, i could sit my ass in EC, i saw a great price on efreeti boots (5800pp) and purchased them, only to resell the next day for 7000pp. i bought a GBS for 6700pp, and i sold it for 8000pp, and so on and so on.

spend some time in EC, and watch the prices of items. over time you will develop a larger item inventory, so every day you'd be buying and selling multiple items.


now granted, these aren't millions of plat, but im not a millionaire. however, where my swings are 2k-3k, if i was rich and if i had manastones i could easily make tens of thousands of plat



TLDR - buy low sell high

[goodle]

goodle, for a quick example, instead of spending hours and hours farming plat, i could sit my ass in EC, i saw a great price on efreeti boots (5800pp) and purchased them, only to resell the next day for 7000pp. i bought a GBS for 6700pp, and i sold it for 8000pp, and so on and so on.

spend some time in EC, and watch the prices of items. over time you will develop a larger item inventory, so every day you'd be buying and selling multiple items.


now granted, these aren't millions of plat, but im not a millionaire. however, where my swings are 2k-3k, if i was rich and if i had manastones i could easily make tens of thousands of plat



TLDR - buy low sell high

Ok so I'll sit in EC for an hour, scanning the prices constantly in hopes that some person is willing to lose 1k to get rid of an item fast. That sounds worse then watching paint dry. If people enjoy doing that then all I have to say is "go get em tiger".

[goodle]

goodle, for a quick example, instead of spending hours and hours farming plat, i could sit my ass in EC, i saw a great price on efreeti boots (5800pp) and purchased them, only to resell the next day for 7000pp. i bought a GBS for 6700pp, and i sold it for 8000pp, and so on and so on.

spend some time in EC, and watch the prices of items. over time you will develop a larger item inventory, so every day you'd be buying and selling multiple items.


now granted, these aren't millions of plat, but im not a millionaire. however, where my swings are 2k-3k, if i was rich and if i had manastones i could easily make tens of thousands of plat



TLDR - buy low sell high

Also I can confirm that I have been bored and sat around EC doing this once in a wile. The only people selling low are doing this for a reason because nobody else wants the item and they were trying to sell it high for a long time before that. It's like you people assume some tard is gonna go sell a manastone for 50k one day and your going to turn around and pawn it off for 80... doesn't work like that. People on this server have been around the block with this game enough.

[Chrushev]

Also I can confirm that I have been bored and sat around EC doing this once in a wile. The only people selling low are doing this for a reason because nobody else wants the item and they were trying to sell it high for a long time before that. It's like you people assume some tard is gonna go sell a manastone for 50k one day and your going to turn around and pawn it off for 80... doesn't work like that. People on this server have been around the block with this game enough.

Weird.. because people have already listed numerous example of doing that in this very thread...

Car dealerships buy old cars, because they can turn around and resell them for more.

Cash 4 Gold buys up gold for cheap because they can turn around and sell it at a profit

There are millions, yes millions of Ebay users that make their whole family's income exactly the same way EC vendors do. They buy low and sell high. Thats all they do. They dont have any other job. They make a decent, and sometimes excellent living doing so.

These are three real life example of what you claim to be impossible. Clearly all these people have never seen a boob.

[goodle]

Weird.. because people have already listed numerous example of doing that in this very thread...

Where... point it out. Turning around Gebs for 1k isn't going to get you near a million plat ever. My thread didn't state do people have 100k did it? My point is morons aren't dropping mana stones for 50k while people are turning them for 80k and making a 30k profit.

[Dark Knight]

Where... point it out. Turning around Gebs for 1k isn't going to get you near a million plat ever. My thread didn't state do people have 100k did it? My point is morons aren't dropping mana stones for 50k while people are turning them for 80k and making a 30k profit.

Hey fucktard, you buy 1k less and sell 1k higher thats 2k profit do that enough and you can buy 20k items around 15 and sell them for 25. You have the mind of a child, no wonder you are still living in your grandparents basement.

[Chrushev]

Where... point it out. Turning around Gebs for 1k isn't going to get you near a million plat ever. My thread didn't state do people have 100k did it? My point is morons aren't dropping mana stones for 50k while people are turning them for 80k and making a 30k profit.

Its not uncommon for a person in the EC tunnel to sell 10-20 items at a time. If you bought each for 2k less, and can sell them for 2k more than their average price. Then thats (2+2)*20 = 80k, while selling you are also buying. If you are on a roll you can make 100k within a very short period of time, a few times a day. And you will have a million plat.

If plat was very easy to get then the market would be flooded with it, and everyone would have millions of plat.

Its not like you wake up and overnight have a million plat. No you work your way up. At first dealing with items in 50-100pp range, then moving on to 500-1000pp range, then 1000-5000pp range etc... eventually you are dealing with 20 items each worth 50,000pp. Thats 2 million pp in items.

[toddfx]

I would love a full body screen shot of Bob in real life and the room he plays in. That would be more of a laugh than his bank account numbers.

How often do you see Bob actually playing? Maybe I just manage to miss him, but it seems like I rarely see him actively auctioning in EC. When I do, he auctions once every like 30 minutes, compared to most people who spam every time their shit goes out of view. His web based service allows him to manage his business outside of the game more so than within.



I've always been intrigued with the idea of playing the money market of EQ and wish I had the time and startup fund to give it a shot. Although my real problem is that i've always been the guy to sell low just to be done with it...

If I can make 500pp now and go do something more entertaining, I'll usually do that instead of spending another 2 hours trying to land 700. Guess I wouldn't be the best broker...

[Odeseus]

I'll give an example. I personally do not have a ton of time to play, let alone sitting in EC trying to sell mediocre_loot_003 in EC. If I am trying to sell an item, I almost always sell it well below market price so that people will buy it quicker. For example, I often hunted in the paw while leveling up and camped Gnoll Hide Tome. I knew that if I was really patient, I could probably sell it for 2k or something like that. However, I sold it for 800pp because I didn't have the time to wait for someone willing to pay 2k for it. So the guy who bought it could have bought it for 800pp and then turned around and sold it for the 2k a few days later. They would have made over 100% profit on it.

I've done the same thing in RL. When I got a flatscreen TV, I put my old TV (which worked perfectly, it was just 10 years old) up on craig's list for $50. I probably could have gotten 3x that but I didn't want my old TV sitting in the corner of my apartment doing nothing but taking up space.

I probably sell myself short all the time, but I prefer selling item_X sooner rather than later.

[Gorgetrapper]

There was a time manastone was down to 30k, then back up to 80k, that's CLEAR profit there for the people who were able to take advantage of it.

[Bruno]

Laughing my ass off at the guy above saying he could ever make 100k in items into 1 million plat. That would just mean that the guy playing the market is some how convincing the mindless plat farming zombies to pay even more ludicrous outlandish prices. People may be stupid but I am hoping to god that the guys spending there lives grinding plat don't buy into these tards playing the market. The market is fucked enough as it is because of people up selling garbage.

http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee297/osukka/1260589732053.jpg

[guineapig]

How a simple question by the OP can become so so complicated...

[Darian]

Laughing my ass off at the guy above saying he could ever make 100k in items into 1 million plat. That would just mean that the guy playing the market is some how convincing the mindless plat farming zombies to pay even more ludicrous outlandish prices. People may be stupid but I am hoping to god that the guys spending there lives grinding plat don't buy into these tards playing the market. The market is fucked enough as it is because of people up selling garbage.

http://www.riolinda87.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/gordon-gekko-ultimate-gadget-geek-0.jpg

Platinum never sleeps, pal.

[Bruno]

How a simple question by the OP can become so so complicated...

Because he insulted half the server in his first post. I thought that was pretty obvious.

[Kimm Barely]

Most people will millions of plat dont farm it. They play the market. Which means they can make 100k plat into 1 million plat within 30 minutes, while making out with their girlfriend, watching TV, eating dinner and clicking an occasional button.

Some people dont like questing/killing/grouping, they enjoy the economics aspect of the game, and thats all they do. All you need is a lvl 1 toon and a few plat to start.

Amount of plat does not directly correlate to amount of time spent playing.

/thread over

[Ihealyou]

My friends are worth way more than a million plat to me.

I could use money though...

[goodle]

Because he insulted half the server in his first post. I thought that was pretty obvious.

If anything I was poking fun at the silent minority of people who sacrifice real life for EQ. That honestly wasn't the point of my thread tho, the point was to ask if any why anyone would have over a million plat. It's not like you can sell it for real life money, it's not like you "need" a manastone/rubi bp etc to compete in raids/soloing. Why would you waste 100k on one item when you could re twink another character for about 20-30k and level him up? It's like this server has the black card club, people walking around flexing there E peens spending 100+ k on items that they don't need to compete and probably 90 percent of the server will ever see them wearing it. A perfect example is me cracking up at these people who sit at the front of the tunnel holding 2 mana stones. I just shake my head and basically see them holding 2 solid gold bars going "look at meeeeee, I like to flaunt my overpriced rare items, teee heee heee".

[goodle]

http://www.riolinda87.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/gordon-gekko-ultimate-gadget-geek-0.jpg

Platinum never sleeps, pal.

This made me laugh tho , Gordon Gekko is a legend. "The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind. And greed, you mark my words, will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA. Thank you very much. "

[Mardur]

Me. I have a million plat.

[Alawen Everywhere]

With all these so called "high rollers" and "ballers" throwing out bids of 100k on items that realistically aren't that great at all and only cost that because of there rarity. Why would someone blow away at least 2 weeks worth+ of real life just to give away all the plat they earned for 1 item such as a Thex Dagger "omfg 50 SV DISEASE!" I know I will get the same automated response "once people dinged 50 and got all there raid gear they had months of free time to farm cash". I guess all I am really trying to figure out by this is why people will literally let there life decay on Earth, just to spend a month farming cash to buy one E-cool item. I thought I had a bad obsession with this game but in comparison to these arm chair warriors throwing around 100k like its nothing, well I would be considered an extreme casual in comparison. May god have mercy on your wrists and legs in your old age....and your virginity.

It seems like a safe bet that you're not very good with money in real life.

You're also not very good at this game.

[goodle]

It seems like a safe bet that you're not very good with money in real life.

You're also not very good at this game.

Money doesn't=Happiness :cool:

[Chrushev]

Money doesn't=Happiness :cool:

What planet are you from? Because on Earth money does equal happiness.

[goodle]

What planet are you from? Because on Earth money does equal happiness.

So answer this then, would you rather go roller blading or skateboarding down the boardwalk?

[impact]

What planet are you from? Because on Earth money does equal happiness.

not to defend goodle either a trolling douche or just plain stupid, but I can tell you that life on Earth is subjective. I hate money more than anything else on this planet and I am as happy as can be. Of course, in this society money is required, or so we think, and in that I do well enough. But it certainly is not what makes me happy, and I know I'm not alone.

[bman8810]

Money is an enabler and, as such, shares a direct correlation with the potential for happiness. While money does not directly equal happiness, it would be unwise to say that they are not related. However, there are always outliers...

As far as "sacrificing" one's life for a game... Well, that is really up to them. Honestly, trying to apply your definition of what a life should be is going to ultimately fail. In my opinion, if Joe_1001 enjoys spending countless hours farming platinum or trading up then the more power to him. My pass times tend to be far more destructive that that these days.

I currently live a pretty good college life with the biggest damper on my social life being the fact that I'm a Chemical Engineering major (graduating shortly, woo). I go out frequently with friends, I pay my own bills, I work hard and I play harder. However, I am finding that I was just as happy power gaming my butt off throughout junior high and high school as I am now.

[Mcbard]

OP is obviously a giant troll. RnF pls!

[Intricus]

Ey I got lotsa money, both in the game and in real life....which only means I can do more....Koake-Kaiiiine!

[Chrushev]

not to defend goodle either a trolling douche or just plain stupid, but I can tell you that life on Earth is subjective. I hate money more than anything else on this planet and I am as happy as can be. Of course, in this society money is required, or so we think, and in that I do well enough. But it certainly is not what makes me happy, and I know I'm not alone.

Yep, I mean money = happiness is a huge philosophical discussion, that doesn't deserve to be had in a thread started by an adolescent troll. Without a doubt, as you pointed out, money (i.e. wealth) is not the only source of happiness. Although in todays society, at least in the western society, which all of us are part of, money (wealth) is one of the most common sources of happiness. This is a simple fact that cannot be denied.

Anyways... does anyone else find the following statements coming out of the same mouth (goodle) a bit ironic?

Kassel just because you make 45k a year you don't need to brag bro, enjoy a life of mediocrity .

2 hours later...

Money doesn't=Happiness :cool:

Bipolar much?

I LOLd :p

[goodle]

Yep, I mean money = happiness is a huge philosophical discussion, that doesn't deserve to be had in a thread started by an adolescent troll. Without a doubt, as you pointed out, money (i.e. wealth) is not the only source of happiness. Although in todays society, at least in the western society, which all of us are part of, money (wealth) is one of the most common sources of happiness. This is a simple fact that cannot be denied.

Anyways... does anyone else find the following statements coming out of the same mouth (goodle) a bit ironic?



2 hours later...



Bipolar much?

I LOLd :p

Hey answer me this.... I want to know, who the fuck killed John F Kennedy?

[karsten]

serious philosophical discussion on emu message board is serious

[fischsemmel]

People may be stupid but I am hoping to god that the guys spending there lives grinding plat

Yes, yes. They may just be.

[quido]

I have a million k's. I can do cartwheels for a mile.