2009-05-21, 05:45 PM
draconius Wrote:You may say that they haven't seriously gached for them, but its quite obvious that again and again you point this out while ignoring the immense draw they have for gachers. I'm not talking about mages gaching this thing; I'm talking about those people that use their allowances to buy gach so they can fund their char in other ways. Mages probably long since gave up gaching to get these for your aforementioned reasons, but there are still people that use gached items to fund their character, and that is primarily where the new wands (technically ALL wands since mages would just keep the wand to themselves most of the time) are coming from now. Again, if you wanted to turn a profit at gach, this is probably the easiest way to do so. Knowing that they're 1Bill apiece makes it appealing to spend much more money than if they were 200Mill apiece. While the aim is probably just to get a few dark scrolls and such, there is still a gambler-esque allure to the potential for an ele wand that makes many people willing to stake their allowances and pay to go gach just a few (hundred) more tickets. No, these aren't bishops or archmages; they're everyone else. I don't make the claim that these people will quit as a result of a change, but I will make the claim that they sure as heck won't be gaching as much as they did before.
Just because I don't know the Nexon business model doesn't mean that I can't state the obvious, and the obvious is that this is an incredibly lucrative weapon for Nexon. If they want to slaughter the cash cow, then fine, but I'm arguing from a pragmatic perspective knowing full well that businesses in this climate aren't privy to intentionally lowering sales in any way possible. Turning the "sky is falling" argument back on me might be good in the context of repetition, but clearly misconstruing my intentions and my arguments is not going anywhere. What we know is that a reduction will make bishops unload their weapons. They're not going to keep them, and there are a heckuvalot more bishops than there are archmages. The bishops will unload weapons en masse, and many will lose a lot of money since the prices will have to be low to reflect the fact that most of their wands are 6 and 8 (thus providing almost no immediate assistance to the archmages that expect their primary stat weapons to drop in value). The price for the weapons will decrease, especially clean ones. What effect that has on people gaching is what we debate, but even the most ardent reduction supporter would not be as obstinate as to say this has no negative implications. Since demand generated greater supply earlier due to both archmages and bishops wanting it, the supply left when bishops unloaded theirs would be enough to establish a much lower constant price that will dissuade people from factoring in an elemental wand into their consideration when gaching. New wands will therefore be rare and drive the price of 5 and 7 up still, despite not having as many new wands coming in (because the demand stimulated suppliers to gach for both wands, and when half that demand is gone...). The fact that Nexon released goggles of all things would also least suggest that they have people occasionally perusing these forums
You know, I've seen more Bishops using wand 7 than any other kind.
And lol@ the results. 1 person would quit due to this out of ~70 would quit due to them changing it.
And Gacha would still have just much of a lure for people as before.
So you said that Bishops would sell their wands, putting more 6's and 8's into the system, which keeps 5 and 7 just as high. Even if prices drop at first, they'll eventually go back up because people will stop gaching for them and less supply will be in the system. With these new prices, people would go gach again.

