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the "NEW DEAL" tales from a depressed economy
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Explain your definition of "broke." I have about 50K through 4 characters and i feel like a rich person.. of course if everyone is raking in like 100K per hour and blowing it all on FoW only to get the money back the next day of course they will feel broke when they can no longer make an income...
Not Anet's fault, not the game's fault, not the monster's fault (for not droping anything), It is players fault.. everyone has such a high standard of how much money they should have, as usless as it is, that they are unable to adapt to normal life. For example switch places with bill gates for a day and he will feel broke simply because he is use to having so much money he can blow his nose with a $100 bill. The same works here, people have so much gold they can blow it all away on mindless junk (FoW armor) and when it finaly catches up to them they feel broke.
As i always say, its not that hard to understand if people would actualy look at the big picture
Not Anet's fault, not the game's fault, not the monster's fault (for not droping anything), It is players fault.. everyone has such a high standard of how much money they should have, as usless as it is, that they are unable to adapt to normal life. For example switch places with bill gates for a day and he will feel broke simply because he is use to having so much money he can blow his nose with a $100 bill. The same works here, people have so much gold they can blow it all away on mindless junk (FoW armor) and when it finaly catches up to them they feel broke.
As i always say, its not that hard to understand if people would actualy look at the big picture
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That's the thing about this game ,you don't need money.
Spread out through all my characters, I think I have about 7k total. I haven't farmed once. I found a gold max fellblade (through NORMAL gameplay, with henchmen) that funded grotto armour, 5:1 vampiric string and some sexy bows. Hell if I can get more than 1 group in fissure a week as a ranger, and I hate underworld trapping runs. I don't need my grotto armour, I even stuck the vampiric string on a collecters shortbow (the 5:1 string does actually give an advantage in combat, not a huge one) but i'm fine just playing the game NORMALLY. That uber gold max crystalline sword isn't going to win HoH just because it looks cool.
Spread out through all my characters, I think I have about 7k total. I haven't farmed once. I found a gold max fellblade (through NORMAL gameplay, with henchmen) that funded grotto armour, 5:1 vampiric string and some sexy bows. Hell if I can get more than 1 group in fissure a week as a ranger, and I hate underworld trapping runs. I don't need my grotto armour, I even stuck the vampiric string on a collecters shortbow (the 5:1 string does actually give an advantage in combat, not a huge one) but i'm fine just playing the game NORMALLY. That uber gold max crystalline sword isn't going to win HoH just because it looks cool.
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When i was only a young ranger, i wanted a superior vigor really bad because I needed money. So, I created a w/mo farmer (hahaha) and farmed for 2 weeks or so. After that, I gave up, deleting the w/mo. I started the next mission with my ranger, and the first drop just happens to be a gold armor for me. I identify it, Superior Vigor!
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I am one of those who will say "who needs money?" 
The thing is, once you have beaten the game and don't want to go through storyline again, what do you have left? PvP & farming for gold to buy those uber 1337 max damage weapons and FoW armor. So for them, getting the money is uber important because for them, apart from PvP they have little else to do.
Now me, I have 4 characters at different parts of the game, and am considering remaking one of them, and I know I'd never be considered "rich" in GW. I have 26K gold to my name sitting in my storage. My characters carry no gold on them except for 100-500 gold to buy new id kits or salvage kits as needed. For me I have no interest in gold as I don't need it, since everything I need I either find or get from a collector. When I finally finish the storyline and maybe want 15K armor or FoW armor.. that's another whole story.. but chances are I'll likely not be too bothered to get them. Thats just not "me" - not that I';m saying it's wrong, it's just not "me"
However I can still see why some people really want the gold - it's a goal for them to get 1 million gold, or to get FoW armor or that max damage gold chaos axe, etc. So for them.. having farming builds than can rake in the money and items is important. It's their way of extending the life of GW for them.
The thing is, once you have beaten the game and don't want to go through storyline again, what do you have left? PvP & farming for gold to buy those uber 1337 max damage weapons and FoW armor. So for them, getting the money is uber important because for them, apart from PvP they have little else to do.
Now me, I have 4 characters at different parts of the game, and am considering remaking one of them, and I know I'd never be considered "rich" in GW. I have 26K gold to my name sitting in my storage. My characters carry no gold on them except for 100-500 gold to buy new id kits or salvage kits as needed. For me I have no interest in gold as I don't need it, since everything I need I either find or get from a collector. When I finally finish the storyline and maybe want 15K armor or FoW armor.. that's another whole story.. but chances are I'll likely not be too bothered to get them. Thats just not "me" - not that I';m saying it's wrong, it's just not "me"
However I can still see why some people really want the gold - it's a goal for them to get 1 million gold, or to get FoW armor or that max damage gold chaos axe, etc. So for them.. having farming builds than can rake in the money and items is important. It's their way of extending the life of GW for them.
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Originally Posted by Tharizdun
Just buy your gold off ebay its the way to go!(sarcasm)
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I would think even this gold will dry up. How do these guys who sell the gold earn it.
Conspiracy theory is
Its A.net who sell it on ebay to raise extra money lol They could create all the gold they want. I dont believe
I know its proberbly bots but I was under the impression these were banned.
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Originally Posted by Sandman Uk
I would think even this gold will dry up. How do these guys who sell the gold earn it.
Conspiracy theory is Its A.net who sell it on ebay to raise extra money lol They could create all the gold they want. I dont believe I know its proberbly bots but I was under the impression these were banned. |
oh come on, stop the conspiracy stuff guys. I know it sounds sexy, but it is silly.
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Eet, you are right, it's silly to say that the nerfing of a farming build has -reduced- ability to sell things. With fewer farmers there are fewer things on the market, this will -increase- your ability to sell things.
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I'll admit that I will never understand the fixation so many have with FoW armor. Even weirder then their being fixated on something hideously expensive that has -no- in-game benefit, they then complain 24/7 about how GWars economy sucks because it isn't built around providing the amount of gold that would make purchasing FoW armor practical.
I guess I'm lucky that style means nothing to me, all I care about is performance, because no way in hell I'll ever have enough money to even contemplate buying FoW armor. The interesting thing is that if you don't insist on having FoW armor then the game economy becomes much more balanced. Superior Vigor is ridiculously expensive (as are a few other superior runes), but overall I've found that I have the money to get what I need and then some.
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I'll admit that I will never understand the fixation so many have with FoW armor. Even weirder then their being fixated on something hideously expensive that has -no- in-game benefit, they then complain 24/7 about how GWars economy sucks because it isn't built around providing the amount of gold that would make purchasing FoW armor practical.
I guess I'm lucky that style means nothing to me, all I care about is performance, because no way in hell I'll ever have enough money to even contemplate buying FoW armor. The interesting thing is that if you don't insist on having FoW armor then the game economy becomes much more balanced. Superior Vigor is ridiculously expensive (as are a few other superior runes), but overall I've found that I have the money to get what I need and then some.
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There was only one time where you actually needed money:
to buy sup runes and unIDed weapons to unlock them.
After they bandaided internal bleeding (aka faction), you dont need money at all. Sure, the armor selection is so poor, and most of the armor is locked behind huge prices, but so what, this game is about ... um doing medium difficult missions with henches. Or something.
to buy sup runes and unIDed weapons to unlock them.
After they bandaided internal bleeding (aka faction), you dont need money at all. Sure, the armor selection is so poor, and most of the armor is locked behind huge prices, but so what, this game is about ... um doing medium difficult missions with henches. Or something.
