The last few weeks/months, i watched the ao market and discovered an exploding inflation Rate
Prices doubled, trebelt or quadrupled in a few days or even hours. Examples are the Growth Vials [Adv] or [Pre] which rose temporarily from ~300k to 800-1000k, the powders of life/spirit which were at ~300 gold when i began to play and heightened up to 3-6k, or even ashen crystals rose from 1k to 7k.

Most serious is in my opinion the boost of the prices for crafting materials. Crafting becomes not only useless, some players can’t afford to spend that much gold for goods they can get cheaper at the market. I wanted to start crafting dragon slayer bows today. When I saw the prices for the materials I did the math: 1 bow costs me around 1,9m and is worth 500-700k. This is a loss of 1,3m per bow and brings NO BENEFIT at all! Sure, considering that crafts sometimes turn out +x lowers the disprofit, but its still better to sell crafting materials at the market and buy equipment and weapons there!

So what is happening? Everyone is trying to gain money for this expensive goods. Every produkt without fixed price is soaring. Example? I bought 1500 Mithril Ingot from 300 gold – 3,9k and sold them for 4k ea -> its working. My friends do the same with crystals and any other stuff that’s in demand and (yet) cheap. So we can assume that the inflation is going on.

Furthermore, the inflation makes item mall products lose their worth. Why? The ingame market price of Item Mall products is nearly constant, but the worth of the ingame money is decreasing! So lets say you get an 160m unarmed elephant from the item mall. Now you want to sell it and spend the gained money for gowth vials: Today you will only get a max. of 200 vials while you could have bought 533 last week for the same price! (well, maybe ndoors profits from the inflation because you will buy more item mall products to finance your ingame costs).
Additionally, the inflation makes gold sellers more attractive than ever: Today i got a spam mail with the offer to buy 1 billion gold for 6,5$. With 1 billion, you can buy every product coming out of the 10$ item mall boxes. Conclusion: it’s CHEAPER and you are not dependend on LUCK. (This is just a conclusion and NO advertisment!)

To put it all in a nutshell:
-> Crafting of equipment/weapons is useless at the moment, since you can buy EVERY product at the market and have NO extra benefit at all of having a crafting skill raised to a certain lvl (e.g. in wow some equipments can only be used if you have a certain crafting lvl).
-> Prices are soaring, which decreases the purchase power of the players and lowers the worth item mall products.
-> It might become easier for gold sellers to find customers.

Games tend upwards to inflation because high levels need so many things and the items the high levels need may tend to coincide with those of low levels. The rate they earn money and the worth they place on it will pretty much cause prices to rise. A titan winner is guaranteed to to at least 30*18m which is 540m pumped into whichever person from whichever server wins it. That’s a large amount of cash to pump into the money supply, which will no doubt cause more inflation. However, I do not think that’s a terrible thing. Back then, It was hard enough to get growth vial [adv] via hunting. Heck, it was cheaper to just not pump it into growth vials. No doubt that many of the lower levels still face this trouble as I once did. Pretty much nothing has changed. It’s not like we’re earning stable income here. What’s hard to get back then will remain hard to get; what’s easy to get as a high level remains easy to get.

No need to discuss crafting much. It sucks. We all know it. It needs a revamp. They’re not gonna do it anytime soon.

I won’t discuss gold sellers either. Their credibility is quite iffy. I’d rather not risk any time at all looking into them. I’ve never heard a single story from anyone who actually bought from a gold seller.

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