What's behind the drop in prices?

[Frug]

Blue players with blue items who want to transfer their wealth to red want to convert their blue items to blue plat so they can trade their blue plat for red plat.

All 8 of them?

[sunmilk]

Originally Posted by Splorf22 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I love you how you inferred my ignorance of multiple topics from one sentence. Congratulations on a textbook strawman, not to mention a poor understanding of macroeconomics (hint: if those people buying the blue pp don't want to buy blue items, why not?)

Your inability to see, read, or understand what I have written is not really something I have control over. However, I did take the time to break down an idea that you seemed to have a hard time understanding as well as give explicit examples. In regards to your "hint" (which I'll be honest -- it doesn't make complete sense), I believe I've already answered your ... hint(?)/question.

Originally Posted by sunmilk [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Also, when you talk about the "buyer (of the blue plat) will just buy blue gear again", that is pretty short sighted. First of all, there are a lot of people who don't currently (or formerly) play on blue that trade red:blue and blue:red simply for profit-making purposes. If you think this is weird, then you still don't understand the concept of liquidity or why liquidity has value. A person who is selling x-server plat has an easy means of generating plat on either or both servers simultaneously. You are making the blatantly false assumption that the "buyers" of this blue plat are 100% people who are coming over to blue to in a sense, replace the red seller. I gave a counter example before with x-server traders, but you can also see this trend reflected in the general population declines/increases over the past weeks (since the last patch went live).

Here I have quoted (and bolded to increase visibility/emphasis for you...) an example of "why not" "those people buying the blue pp don't want to buy blue items."

It's funny that you are the one accusing me of creating the logical fallacy when you were unable to respond with anything more than an emotional response. But this bold text should help with your "hint" in particular.

[Swish]

What's the huge problem with everyone on the server building up their plat reserves?

Huge inflation pals when it all comes back into the system, you won't get any Velious pixels unless you've either been farming endless epic MQs or spending a lot of time PL'ing people in Chardok etc.

Enjoy that, I look forward to the tears in RNF.

[Brut]

What Velious pixels do people think they're buying?
Prty sure there aint gonna be no armor MQs or Lodi Shields up for grabs for nearly half a year, no matter how much plat you'd throw up.

[HeallunRumblebelly]

Originally Posted by Brut [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

What Velious pixels do people think they're buying?
Prty sure there aint gonna be no armor MQs or Lodi Shields up for grabs for nearly half a year, no matter how much plat you'd throw up.

Nah, leather armor will be available for MQ within 3 months, guaranteed. Only problem is no one wants it! :P

edit: And lodi shields, eh...decent EB item, but I'm not going to wear it over hiero and certainly not over a shroud (or even less over an eashan cloak!)

I think AoNs coming from zland and eventually from more mobs in revamped fear will be a huge hit in that market. I think 36 haste will take an even larger hit as more guilds will be capable of attaining 41 haste, especially if they c/ffa/r shit like tormax. I think holgresh elder beads will be worth their weight in virgins (young women, not you people) in about 2 years. You're kidding yourself if you don't think SoDs / BoCs / flayed barb legs / flayed barb mask et al won't be sold for sweet sweet RMT cash. Speaking of that last line--can we go ahead and make the raid loot no drop already? Classic or not, fuck RMT.

[fastboy21]

Originally Posted by Brut [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

What Velious pixels do people think they're buying?
Prty sure there aint gonna be no armor MQs or Lodi Shields up for grabs for nearly half a year, no matter how much plat you'd throw up.

armor MQs will be for sale almost on day 1. guilds here are more than equipped/knowledgeable to farm them with small grps or even solo.

[HeallunRumblebelly]

Originally Posted by fastboy21 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

armor MQs will be for sale almost on day 1. guilds here are more than equipped/knowledgeable to farm them with small grps or even solo.

Not halls of testing (the only mq you'd actually, y'know, buy). Those (especially plate) will be rare for 3-5 months, but eventually it'll become a cash camp I'd imagine.

[fastboy21]

why do you think folks wouldn't be interested in thurg MQs? especially BPs.

[HeallunRumblebelly]

Originally Posted by fastboy21 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

why do you think folks wouldn't be interested in thurg MQs? especially BPs.

Because they're not BiS. And people have a hardon for BiS [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[fastboy21]

mischief cards will be interesting...on live this was something that i never really got into or even knew anyone that did the pom stuff.