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Originally Posted by Gadwen
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In the example here it made sense, they injected way too much money into a brand new game, they set up a flawed system by letting all that wealth carry over so they had to correct it.
Not really the same situation here on P99, assuming that people haven't duped or RMTed all their plat, it was earned legitimately through game play or interaction with other players as it was intended. The fact that there is a ton of plat floating around isn't a mistake. Resetting peoples banks would just kill this server, not simply from people leaving because of it, but people would never have faith that what they were doing was "permanent" and would always have that fear in the back of their minds that they were going to log in and find that what they spent 6-12 months working for was gone.
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Not as much sense as you may think. Remember the armor/weapon decay money sink? Well for higher level equipment it took correspondingly more gold to repair. While the change was unnoticeable to a level 1 character, it hit the higher levels HARD. If your gear decayed 100%, it poofed!
What happened was every time you went out hunting with your higher level, you had to go home, (no bank, just a locked chest in your house) put your good gear in chest, and go out to a newbie zone for an hour or more killing faeries naked to earn enough money to repair your gear. It was quite comical
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Eventually, of course, the economy did recover, but those first few weeks after the massacre were sure interesting.
Of course after the massacre there was "Black Tuesday". That's the day the entire server staff came to work to find Vivendi had bought out Sierra-on-line and laid off the entire staff as they came in the building.
Yes, they laid off the entire staff of a live pay-for-play game. Seens Vivendi had no idea the game even existed and was just interested in the intellectual property of things like Kings Quest etc. I was a guide and we quite literally ran the server for about ten days before they straightened it all out.
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