2008-12-29, 08:37 PM
Thunda Wrote:It's a distortion of the market when you only have one or two sellers. Under your reasoning, Microsoft is getting paid by all its consumers, so the consumers control the prices of Windows software. Read more about monopolies. When monopolies and oligopolies arise, it is only natural for someone on the market to be attempting to push the prices down.
Of course, no one condones buying pendants from hackers here, but there are people that would. Also, not everyone has enough time in their lives to level to 17x like you have.
Microsoft is a huge company and it's customers greatly outnumber the number of ht pend/egg buyers in one of the newer servers. Look up Hotelling's law...monopoly controls the prices, but can't control the business (except in the case of hogging the cave, then that's just wrong)
I said: "Pendant price is not controlled by the market, it's controlled by the buyers. As long as someone will buy it at that price, then that will be the price. And what do you mean "wait for a legit run?" Why wait? Waiting is noob, waiting is leeching. Go out and TRAIN and control your own destiny...waiting for others to get you pend/egg? lol."
The monopoly doesn't exist if more sellers start showing up...but i guess no one has the time to lvl even with 2exp, 4th job, and stupid 2x/4x events nowadays (sarcasm). If you don't like the price, go and truly earn it. It's not hard. I'd bet nowadays it only takes like ~3 months to get to 17x but i don't see many new players working as hard as the old schoolers. You don't even need to spend real money to play this game (buy nx for 2exp and whatnot) or spend real money to get mesos (gach or sell nx/itcg codes or items). It takes TIME to gain the lvls, if you don't have TIME then it will cost mesos to gain the items that require the time (the time it takes to train to be able to ht in order to earn the pend/egg). If you don't have time to train or the mesos to buy the pend/egg, then that's that...there's no such thing as a free lunch; you can't have your cake and eat it too.
But back on topic, it's not just ht. Hackers are at bf, crow, anegos daily. I'm sure they're at zak but with three zak ch who really bothers to wait and see? There's always another empty ch or another ch will open in 15-30 minutes.