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2012-02-17, 03:05 AM

Afrobean Wrote:The way it works right now, there are two currencies in the market. Mesos and NX. There is no hard conversion rate between them, and the closest you could get is by comparing what an item sells for in MTS versus what it sells for in FM. But this rate is dynamic and can shift. Why does it shift? Because the two currencies are infinitely inflating thanks to actions of the user. User kills monster, mesos are added to the economy. User gives Nexon money, NX is added to the economy. There are ways the currency can be removed, like buying items from an NPC or buying from cash shop instead of MTS, but infinitely inflating currency is the problem of all MMOs. The problem: MapleStory has two different ones with differing relative values. Cut out MTS, and the only infinitely inflating currency in the market would be the meso. Also, someone with a lot of cash has the power to inflate a lot more than anyone trying to farm mesos. It's a lot easier to drop your credit card and get a crapload of NX than to instantly acquire a crapload of mesos from killing monsters.

The problem is that there are people who are either unwilling or unable to purchase NX.
These people will continue to buy it from those who can, thereby creating a conversion factor between NX and meso.
One way is Cash Shop gifting (which some people are suggesting be replaced by Cash Shop trading room. No difference really except in the scamming aspect): "I give you meso, you gift me a Miracle Cube." How many meso for a miracle cube? Supply and demand. When demand for NX spikes, like when potential came out, the value of the meso plummets.

The second way, which could never be blocked, is meso-for-card-code trades. Unless Nexon starts demanding you hold your physical card up to your webcam, to prove you didn't just buy the code from someone else. And again, the higher the demand for NX, the lower the value of the meso would go.

Removing MTS will remove any way of transfering raw NX from user to user (once the card code has been redeemed), making it impossible for hackers to directly steal your NX and for goldselling sites to sell it (other than as card codes), which I suppose is a good thing in and of itself. But it has nothing to do with stabilizing the economy or stopping inflation.

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