Mar 19, 2006, 07:34 PM // 19:34
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Desert Nomad
Join Date: Apr 2005
Guild: Centurion Guard
Profession: Mo/E
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Here's my thoughts...
There's nothing anyone 'needs' to buy that requires agonizing over merchant prices.
Get yourself 50k and you can easily buy Droknar's armor and creature skins for a collector's weapon. There's the only 'need' in the game. In fact, you can pretty much do anything with sub-par armor and weaponry so you don't even 'need' that stuff.
There's no real economy in Guild Wars because the items being bought have no functionality.
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Mar 19, 2006, 07:41 PM // 19:41
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#3
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Krytan Explorer
Join Date: Dec 2005
Profession: W/
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Yeah well..I try and sell an almost perfect chaos axe...no one answers..im selling for like 70k....but yeah. I guess people in guild wars dont like my stuff ;_;
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Mar 19, 2006, 07:42 PM // 19:42
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#4
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Desert Nomad
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: North Carolina
Profession: N/Me
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The economy went south as soon as the gold farmers started. It works just like a real economy. If billions of US dollars suddenly got dumped on the market our currency buying power would plummet. Same thing with gold. Gold now no longer has the same buying power. As for item devaluation blame that on FotM. Everytime someone comes up with a new build then the equipment for that build becomes mroe valuable and the old FotM stuff plummets. I'd also go so far as to say that over farming for profit by the small minority that farms just to sell has caused prices to plummet. Same principle as the gold. The Mona Lisa is priceless but if all the sudden someone found about a thousand copies painted by Da Vinci that he had just squirrled away then the Mona Lisa would plummet in value. Requirement 8 weapons have been farmed and horded to the point where even the greatest mods barely fetch anything now.
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Mar 19, 2006, 07:46 PM // 19:46
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#5
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Jungle Guide
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Yorkshire, UK
Profession: R/Me
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you posted one of your problems anyway. Trade spam
If people stuck to trade channels it wouldn't be so bad. But instead people spam local, others keep local off unless they need a group and people who might have thought "ooh that looks good" won't see your item. That and as stated, items aren't necessary to win at this game.
I think there's an auction house in the works, hopefully that should help out some, and if not, try using the gwg auctions, its worked for me. I never have and never will resort to in-game trading; it just isn't worth the time, effort and annoyance
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Mar 19, 2006, 08:12 PM // 20:12
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#6
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Lion's Arch Merchant
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Cavalon (swe)
Guild: Desert Flame [DF]
Profession: W/N
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i really think that you should try in
droknars forge or in ascalon if there
is still no buyers try international
and final: never sell a perfect item for below 10k
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Mar 19, 2006, 08:24 PM // 20:24
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#7
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Wilds Pathfinder
Join Date: May 2005
Location: London, England
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2 things:
Maybe the majority of people have their "must have" weapons now. Theres no longer a big market for gold items, perfect or otherwise.
Also, maybe some people (me included) are waiting until factions comes out and using their money to get a jump start.
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Mar 19, 2006, 08:50 PM // 20:50
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#8
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Grotto Attendant
Join Date: May 2005
Location: in the midline
Profession: E/Mo
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Three Words:
Factions is coming
= people are waiting for new skins
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Mar 19, 2006, 09:03 PM // 21:03
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#9
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Krytan Explorer
Join Date: Jan 2006
Profession: W/R
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I have all chats off bar guild, everyone i know does as well! does your eyes in all that writing flying about
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Mar 19, 2006, 09:40 PM // 21:40
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#10
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Jungle Guide
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I just don't see the point in trying to sell things all the time, the only thing I might perk up to is a +enchant mod or a +energy or skill mod that I could use on my newly aquired crystal desert weapon I got for killing some things, taking their droppings and giving them to the collector, then applying it to my customized staff or weapon. Too bad you can't really make the weapon itself more unique looking though, the dyes just don't really do much. Instead it just looks like I have a stick for a staff or a purple skull staff or something.
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Mar 19, 2006, 11:02 PM // 23:02
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#11
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Desert Nomad
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Urmston, Manchester, UK
Guild: Greener Pastures [DVDF]
Profession: W/Rt
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the state of the economy is appalling at best. for example, look at the sorrows furnace greens, not a lot of people farm there anymore, so the items are becoming ever harder to get, yet the prices are still going down! in my opinion the best way to solve that particular issue would be a Green Weapon Trader
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Mar 19, 2006, 11:35 PM // 23:35
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#12
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Wilds Pathfinder
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Worthing, UK
Guild: (Don't fear) The Beaver
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I have never bought an item from a complete stranger. Guildies - yes. I won't be getting anything via a different route until the auction house system is implemented (to be honest it should have been in from the start). In my opinion the trade system (such as it is) is lazy at best and worst case smacks of amateurism by the programmers. It's funny how the crappest Korean open Betas (ok Knight Online ) have a half decent auction system when we don't in this game. Believe me thats the only good thing about that game..
Apologies for the mini-rant but the trade 'system' in GW beggars belief. In my opinion of course.
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Mar 19, 2006, 11:44 PM // 23:44
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#13
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Lion's Arch Merchant
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Marhan's Grotto, reminiscing about the good old days when it had more than two people.
Guild: Children of Orion [CoO]
Profession: R/Mo
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What would be cool is if there was some sort of tool in GW to parse all the text in chat, for certain terms. Say you wanted to buy a mursaat skinned bow. You just type that into a box, and click Parse. Only phrases that contain those words would you see. That would be much better.
Even with an auction house, this would be good. An auction house isn't going to stop the spam completely.
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Mar 20, 2006, 12:05 AM // 00:05
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#15
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Frost Gate Guardian
Join Date: Sep 2005
Profession: Mo/W
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Are you sure you werent in offline mode?
I dont think I'd have trouble getting someone to buy a 15% req8 enchanted sword for 10k.. or get someone to take 25k for free or whatever...
Granted, demand (and prices) are down, but I didnt think that severely though.
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Mar 20, 2006, 12:18 AM // 00:18
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#17
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Desert Nomad
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: North Carolina
Profession: N/Me
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Haggard
the state of the economy is appalling at best. for example, look at the sorrows furnace greens, not a lot of people farm there anymore, so the items are becoming ever harder to get, yet the prices are still going down! in my opinion the best way to solve that particular issue would be a Green Weapon Trader
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Well allow me to explain to you why that is. Green items, when they were new, were great things, but now they are like comparing a Cadillac to a Bentley. Greens are the new middle class item,relatively easy to get, always perfect mods. The thing of it is the smarter players and the players that have the disposable income have figured out you can get the same mods on golds plus other beneficial mods. So no more massive prices for green items simply because they are no longer the cream of the crop. The new wore off and people woke up.
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Mar 20, 2006, 02:19 AM // 02:19
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#18
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Wilds Pathfinder
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Green Weapons didn't exactly help the price of gold weapons. =(
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Mar 20, 2006, 02:22 AM // 02:22
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#19
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Desert Nomad
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: North Carolina
Profession: N/Me
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Only gold weapons that are worthwhile. They certainly hurt the price of others though because people now saw that max damage and gold wasn't all they needed. People became more selective and more informed.
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Mar 20, 2006, 03:14 AM // 03:14
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#20
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Krytan Explorer
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Oklahoma, USA
Guild: None
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Pevil Lihatuh
you posted one of your problems anyway. Trade spam
If people stuck to trade channels it wouldn't be so bad. But instead people spam local, others keep local off unless they need a group and people who might have thought "ooh that looks good" won't see your item. That and as stated, items aren't necessary to win at this game.
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That's exactly what I do. I always have it off unless I absolutely need something, which is rare.
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