Gryz
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- Aug 28, 2010
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Many long-time players have a lot of gold. Millions of gold. 20k Gold is worth a lot less than $15.
You think gold-seller prices are relevant, but they are not. Most players will not consider buying gold from a gold-seller. Because it's illegal, it's a risk, and because many players don't like gold-sellers. So the market for buying gold from gold-sellers was very limited. If not a lot of players want to buy gold, the supply of gold is relatively high, and the price of gold will stay low. But with the new system, there will be a lot more sellers of gold (for a token). Thus the value of gold will drop, and the value of a token will go up. Also, many people (with millions of gold in the bank), don't bother gathering more gold. Once the token system is there, they might start actively acquiring more gold again. And with more gold in the system, the value of gold will go down.
I expect prices for a 30-day game-token to be somewhere between 50k and 100k gold. If you have a million gold, that'll last you a year, to 18 months maybe.
What's interesting is what this system will do with the prices of current items in the game. Will people still buy a ilvl680 BoE item for 50k gold ? Or will they prefer to spend it on a game-token ? Maybe prices of BoE and other valuable in-game items will drop a lot.
You think gold-seller prices are relevant, but they are not. Most players will not consider buying gold from a gold-seller. Because it's illegal, it's a risk, and because many players don't like gold-sellers. So the market for buying gold from gold-sellers was very limited. If not a lot of players want to buy gold, the supply of gold is relatively high, and the price of gold will stay low. But with the new system, there will be a lot more sellers of gold (for a token). Thus the value of gold will drop, and the value of a token will go up. Also, many people (with millions of gold in the bank), don't bother gathering more gold. Once the token system is there, they might start actively acquiring more gold again. And with more gold in the system, the value of gold will go down.
I expect prices for a 30-day game-token to be somewhere between 50k and 100k gold. If you have a million gold, that'll last you a year, to 18 months maybe.
What's interesting is what this system will do with the prices of current items in the game. Will people still buy a ilvl680 BoE item for 50k gold ? Or will they prefer to spend it on a game-token ? Maybe prices of BoE and other valuable in-game items will drop a lot.