Curse

MSecorsky · May 02, 2007, 09:16 PM // 21:16

Just for gits and shiggles I took a look at the gold sellers on eBay to see what the effects on gold prices have been.

They're gone. All the gold sellers on eBay are gone. Either eBay did a crackdown, or this is really working.

Evan montegarde · May 02, 2007, 09:21 PM // 21:21

The first. Ebay removed all online game auctions a while back.

MSecorsky · May 02, 2007, 09:28 PM // 21:28

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Originally Posted by Evan montegarde

The first. Ebay removed all online game auctions a while back.

Items, yes... but as of a couple days ago, there were plenty of gold sellers still advertising. Over just a couple days >poof<, they're all gone.

Neo Nugget · May 02, 2007, 10:45 PM // 22:45

/cheer
finally

TheLordOfBlah · May 02, 2007, 10:49 PM // 22:49

items = gold

Series · May 02, 2007, 10:52 PM // 22:52

Not so much a side effect as a DIRECT effect. I did a google search to find gold sellers and it seems that prices have either skyrocketed... or the people moved on to farm for more profitable games! Many sites say "There are currently no Guild Wars items available". Rejoice!

MSecorsky · May 02, 2007, 10:53 PM // 22:53

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Originally Posted by TheLordOfBlah

items = gold

"Items" (weapons, etc.) disappeared weeks ago.

Gold sellers were there just a couple days ago. Pages of them.

Alex the Great · May 02, 2007, 10:55 PM // 22:55

3 cheers for Anet

you did the impossible

how bout an auction house?

NoChance · May 02, 2007, 11:15 PM // 23:15

consider this alternate explanation:

because of the loot scaling, tons of people quit the game, and the gold sellers now have no customers, and so they shut down.

this is almost certainly not what really happened, but I think we're jumping to conclusions if we say that Anet has succeeded with the loot scaling.
(especially with all the reports of bots at Bergen Hot Springs)

Alas Poor Yorick · May 02, 2007, 11:27 PM // 23:27

Yay - fewer gold sellers!

Oh, wait, I can't afford to buy anything in the game anyway -- so what the H do I care if there fewer gold sellers?

Fender · May 02, 2007, 11:39 PM // 23:39

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Originally Posted by Alas Poor Yorick

Oh, wait, I can't afford to buy anything in the game anyway -- so what the H do I care if there fewer gold sellers?

Ummm..... That's EXACTLY why you should care. Less people buying gold means less inflation. That gold you do have is becoming more valuable.

MrSlayer · May 02, 2007, 11:40 PM // 23:40

I was in LA not an hour ago and I saw someone whining about how the price of his gold has almost doubled since the nerf.

Needless to say I was one of the many who reported him for claiming to buy gold. However, if he wasnt just doing this for some sort of "macho look at me lol" effect, you might be right. It would make sense. Harder to get gold, therefore less to sell, therefore higher prices to make the most of what you have.

Anyway, any sort of anti-gold-selling works for me, even if it does make it that little bit harder for me to get my Sin Vabbi armor

Myrkwid · May 03, 2007, 12:13 AM // 00:13

I just checked the german ebaysite and there are still five pages of item/gold sellers. There is actually a great decrease in goldsellers, but if I remember it correct, the price for ebaygold has risen quite a bunch. 110€ for 1000 Plat. Duh. But if there are still enough crazy people buying, esspecially at that price, it's just a matter of time until the sellers return.
The lootscaling did just one thing. Botters take longer to get the same amount of gold.

neshim · May 03, 2007, 12:16 AM // 00:16

A.Net didn't do anything. Ebay cracked down on game-type auctions(selling gold, weapons etc.)

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Results 1 - 10 of about 2,200,000 for guild wars gold

Just on google.

Dougal Kronik · May 03, 2007, 12:44 AM // 00:44

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Originally Posted by Fender

Ummm..... That's EXACTLY why you should care. Less people buying gold means less inflation. That gold you do have is becoming more valuable.

Only amongst the player based economy, Runes/Dye/Trading.

The merchants and skill traders don't give a rat's ass that there is less gold in circulation.

Antheus · May 03, 2007, 12:53 AM // 00:53

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The lootscaling did just one thing. Botters take longer to get the same amount of gold.

Only until they adjust their bots.

And also, it might even boost their profits. Since gold will for some be even harder to come by legally, the demand will rise, but supply will stay reduced.

So in the end, they might even profit much more for selling gold for more money.

HawkofStorms · May 03, 2007, 01:11 AM // 01:11

No matter how they "adjust their bots" bots will still make less money now they did before loot scaling (think about it, bots are getting an 1/8th of the gold they used to (or with solo HM farming, lets say a 1/4th). This is brillant and I'm quite pleased.

Also, to Neshim who just googled "guild wars gold," did you actually look at those thousands of sites? Half of them are probablly redirects to threads on forums like this and other sites. Its doubtful that there are 2.2 million GW gold selling sites when only 3 million copies of the game have even been sold

Use your head people.

Gaile Gray · May 03, 2007, 01:23 AM // 01:23

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Originally Posted by NoChance

consider this alternate explanation:

because of the loot scaling, tons of people quit the game, and the gold sellers now have no customers, and so they shut down.

this is almost certainly not what really happened, but I think we're jumping to conclusions if we say that Anet has succeeded with the loot scaling.
(especially with all the reports of bots at Bergen Hot Springs)

Phew! NoChance, you gave me a start there.

At first I thought you were claiming that players had really left the game in a snit. But, just so everyone knows it, the opposite is true. Player numbers are up since the update that introduced Hard Mode and made other game changes. We have more people playing Guild Wars, and they are playing more hours.

A few more facts: Gold is now substantially more expensive to buy in RL cash. Prices within the game currency are dropping, making more things affordable to players. The average player is making more from playing. And yep, we're dealing with bots and sales-spammers regularly, too.

Things are going well.

neshim · May 03, 2007, 01:33 AM // 01:33

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Originally Posted by Gaile Gray

Things are going well.

Yea, I quit PvE due to me being bored and tried some AB. Need some new maps, seriously. Then I got bored of that. Now I am looking for more friends because most of the old ones quit :/.Yep, things are really going well for me. So, how was your day?

hhslf · May 03, 2007, 01:34 AM // 01:34

Good, sounds like everything is going right.