iCollect Wrote:I only started talking when someone told me my guild was mentioned in this thread. I looked at it and simply wanted to clarify some misgivings people seemed to feel towards us. ;P
Now to the "what's the point" question... the point of any game is to of course have fun. If you feel you're working in a game, you should quit the game. So I would vouch that anyone that's having fun "taking advantage" of the the economy probably has that as their point in playing this game. Speaking from my experience I can tell you that once you reach a certain point in this game, you stop caring about mesos at all and pretty much only play it for the fun of collaboration with friends and joking around in game. So, to that effect, no matter how much this game inflates, some people simply don't care as long as they can continue doing what they do and have their laughs. The point isn't always in the end product and is sometimes just the process itself. =P
As for losing real money... let's say merchants only made 15b from investing 5b, as per my previous example. Let's say they sell these mesos at current meso selling prices. Let's calculate that. $6 = 100mil $60= 1b $600=10b $1200 = 20b A merchant that has 20b would still make away with $1200 clean if he simply sold what he earned. =P
Just a note, all godly items that exceed 2.147b are traded in two methods.
1) mesos + items that have a certain worth. i.e. 21 atk for 20atk +items/mesos
2) mts.
That being said, the apocalypse isn't quite here yet, so don't fret. =)
@ most posters in these last two pages: yay, a semi-intelligent conversation!
None of the posts were directed toward you. The one talking about the guild was to explain the glove attk price increase. Not to bash, just to inform.
The posts were directed to everyone in general.
@iCollect you completely missed the whole point of what I was saying.
and after hearing you talk about the meso exploit, I don't think it's real anymore.
The real reason I think meso prices are so low is because the gold farmers have to compete with eachother. If one goes low, they all do.
As for the amount of mesos being tossed around- they have probably already been there, just sitting on characters waiting to be sold. Now they are in buyer and sellers hands.