2009-05-21, 04:53 PM
eos367 Wrote:Just like the market didn't accept Genesis 30 dropping to 100m practically overnight? Or chaos scrolls? or 4 attack pacs?
Nearly every patch Nexon's done something that caused an extremely valuable commodity to become dirt cheap, even if only temporarily.
People don't have an option beyond accepting it. The nature of the game is for things to shift. Your shiny rare and wonderful item today may be tomorrow's Under the Maple Tree.
And you'll notice that, despite saying that Ele wand 3 would be coming from the second box event, it really didn't. This is a Nexon cash cow, and I would even find leech being associated with this. You don't touch it the way you do with other things. Chaos scrolls were never really used much since they were just that rare and they were a consumable commodity. PACs have long since outlived their usefulness as a cash cow as well. Genesis wasn't even in Gach in the first place, so cashing in on that made sense in the long run since the market demand would not only kill hackers in trying to sell them but profit from the enormous demand.
With ele wands, none of those qualifications are met. They've only been on the market for a year, and while a 2ATTK PAC used to cost 250M when it first came out and indeed for a year afterwards, it depreciated to some 20-30M by late last yaer. 4ATTK was some 500-700M when it first came out, and again, the depreciation PRIOR to the box event no longer justified protections against using it in an event. With Ele wands, their initial cost is so high that it can be milked for much longer than these things. Since bishops and archmages sell leech to the population as a whole (*Note, PLEASE don't start a leech discussion, this is just a point to be made), the mage equip economy is much more expensive, which lures others to gach to sell to it. Even NLs, unless they constantly HT (again, selling a service) or merchant or buy gach, will often be funded by a mage powerhouse. This is an enormous draw that has lasting implications that Nexon understands.