2009-07-05, 11:16 PM
motomage Wrote:its kinda lolable that some merchants think they can have that huge of an effect on the overall games currency, sure you can manipulate some items, which some are (glove atts, white scrolls, chaos, iblis, etc) all you need is a group of people with alot of meso to buy up stock. its not difficult to do. i've seen very small groups do it hundreds of times with sormcaster gloves to pet speed scrolls.
whenever theres cheap meso marketeers can step in and increase the inflation on anything. its a great time to do it given the circumstances. its always amusing though seeing people come out of the woodwork and exclaim they have personally "owned" the free market xD
every time mass inflation like this happens one thing occurs before hand; mesos becoming cheap to buy online. why buy nx when you can buy meso for cheap. everyone is buying meso right now. every heney hoe is buying a few billion a week instead of blowing nx on another nx look.
mesos fell in price (widely at least) a week before glove attacks even began to inflate. i wont list the site, but one of the largest meso sellers online began selling 1b for 60 dollars 2 WEEKS ago at a "promo" price. (throw in it being the busiest time of the year in the game when inflation is common anyway)
since then the promo has become perm and has only continued to lower. the real worry is that given all the variables, you could see inflation get out of hand and ruin the game. meso is devaluing at a speed ive personally never seen and the sellers continue to cut price to move product (some are already pushing 35+ dollars for 1b).
why the meso sellers are deflating their product so heavily, basically throwing it away is what none of us know, yet...
which is why i said straight off the bat that the reason for the inflation was meso sellers and meso farmers =) what i said after that was how it worked. i never claimed that merchants were the sole cause of this particular inflation in all prices. =P