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Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 1:11 am
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Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 1:32 am
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Those ideas do not make sense to me.
Alchemy is more like a gold exchange than an actual sink. Not many materials can be bought from a Gaia store, and those you can buy there cost little to nothing. You have to either find them in boxes, or buy them on the marketplace from others. This results in the gold switching owner, and only the 2% tax works like a sink.
Blue Noodle was the only cash tree offer available for those outside USA. There are still offers, though they are not working all over the world. Gaia said they're working on a new offer that is supposed to replace Blue Noodle, but whether it's a lie or not, you will never know...
As for the fish, you will again buy them for either bought cash, or from other users on the marketplace, which again results in a gold exchange with a 2% tax. Not a sink really.
And last but not least; what comes from the cash shop only adds to the problem, it's not a sink. Gaia is making real money with this, and many people who have a lot of real money abuse it. They buy items worth plenty of gold, to sell them and get rich. No gold is being flushed out that way, but Gaia gets their money anyway.
It's only a sink if the gold goes back to Gaia, and not other users. But to be honest, Gaia ruined the gold economy themselves, by adding the cash shop, and frequently updating it. They are the ones to blame, but of course they would never admit that.
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 5:41 pm
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 6:37 pm
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well lets start fisrt with the definition of a gold sink. Gold sink is an economic process by which a video game's ingame currency ('gold'), or any item that can be valued against it, is removed. Most commonly the genres are role-playing game or massively multiplayer online game. The term is comparable to timesink, but usually used in reference to game design and balance, commonly to reduce inflation when commodities and wealth are continually fed to players through sources such as quests, looting monsters, or minigames. - from wikipedia
Well this is how the gold sink works for me. Yes I have to agree with you that the 2% tax also works as a gold sink.
How does it work like a gold sink? Alchemy = you still need gold to alchemize items. You need to buy items from the market or get it through whatever means it entails you but the point of alchemy here is. The gold from the higher/or richer gaians gets distributed among other gaians and they use it to buy whatever items or new cash items the market has to offer. Like the 2% tax you have mentioned earlier. it's a continuos process where items are sold and bought in the mp. Tax continues to filter out the gold and such.
I think you agree with me on the blue noodle idea.
I think I have to disagree with you with the fish though. Recently since free gc has been taken away from the economy. You will notice that fish prices have increased rapidly. This sudden increase led to fish prices increasing in value. Now, old tank owners would know what price of fish they should buy them for. But alot of new aspiring tank owners loose alot of gold this way. They just buy the fishes and sadly they make less than what they bought it for from = hence it becomes a gold sink. Now I'm talking merely on tank revenues made for the day. Not of the earnings coming from playing bg. Even old tank owners now are forced to buy fishes at ridicoulous prices just to sustain their tank = for their credibility as tank owners only ti find out that they worked so hard and for what? a merely 20k earnings from a very good tank? lol
I've seen lots of aspiring/new tank owners out there only loosing hope of making it big in GA.
And last but not least; what comes from the cash shop only adds to the problem, it's not a sink. Gaia is making real money with this, and many people who have a lot of real money abuse it. They buy items worth plenty of gold, to sell them and get rich. No gold is being flushed out that way, but Gaia gets their money anyway. --> I agree with this one ^^ Thanks for pointing this out
All in all. Yes they are still the ones at fault here. ^^
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 6:38 pm
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 6:42 pm
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