2008-11-01, 10:50 AM
Sinnuendo Wrote:The fact is, if EVERYBODY could buy keys for 1500 mesos, the economy would be completely destroyed; 10 ATK PACs would be completely worthless, because there would be several thousand Chaos Scrolls PER SERVER flooding the economy, plus several thousand 4 ATK clean PACs.
Economy can't be destroyed by such means. It can be changed, though.
There's no law of nature that says a 10 ATK PAC has to cost a fortune. Suppose it becomes so cheap everybody has one. Suppose they started dropping from snails. What of it? Some people who kept PACs as an investment would be out of luck. That's all. Everybody else would take them for granted and spend more money on attack gloves and shields.
If this "event" continues, eventually the prices will all stabilize, although at different values from today. Once the prices of the goodies inside boxes get low enough, people will no longer be buying keys as often (why spend 1500NX on a key to a box, when the box's contents can't be sold for more than 1m meso?), so the supply will level off.
If the "event" ends, the prices will stabilize at a point closer to what they are today. Most of the use items (chaos scrolls, taos, erasers, etc.) will get consumed. The equipment will change hands several times until it's bought by somebody who actually *gasp* *horror* uses it, and thus be off the market as well. 2 ATK PACs will continue to float around, being bought for cheap by newbies who can't afford better, and eventually offloaded for a similar low price.
Not every economic change is "destroying" or "killing" the economy.
Quote:The fact is, items like PACs, BWGs, Chaos Scrolls, masks, etc. are INCENTIVES to make people buy NX, so that the game can stay free.
Like 2x exp, 2x drop, looting pets, auto-potting pets, and of course all the appearance-related stuff in Cash Shop is not enough?
People were buying plenty of NX even before this event.
But of course Nexon, like any other company, always wants more profit.