95 blue crystals cost 840 gold?..

[-Drowned-]

the worst thing is that as time progresses it will continue to rise. I don't know if it's the people or thanks to the bots that the price goes up. but so much gold for 95 crystals?

[Killance]

Late game gold falls from the sky. I think it's less bots and more people hitting T2 gold grind.

[[G35]Burnacid]

yeah the price is rising rapidly. I bought my first couple sets of crystals for 148g each. Was an affordable character and ship skin 2 weeks ago. If I would not have bought it back then I would not be able to afford the 2 skins now.
I too am curious what the cause of the rise in cost is, sure you earn more gold later on but the cost of potions, battle items and stronghold upgrades also start costing very significant amounts of gold. Currently my gold is slowly dropping day by day untill I hit a quest that grants some additional gold to balance things out, but purchasing a pet or another skin at this point is entirely unrealistic unless I were to halt my progression for the sake of shop purchases like skins and crystal buff extension.

[JustSmile]

Why are people surprised. Of course they grow in cost, as people learn how to earn gold its value falls sharply while the crystals are tied to swiping.
They were bound to be extremely cheap the first couple weeks - they still are - but I'll be very surprised if they stabilise below 2000.

[-Drowned-]

Originally posted by JustSmile:

Why are people surprised. Of course they grow in cost, as people learn how to earn gold its value falls sharply while the crystals are tied to swiping.
They were bound to be extremely cheap the first couple weeks - they still are - but I'll be very surprised if they stabilise below 2000.

my problem is not that. The problem is that, for example, in the future it will be more profitable to pay than to collect gold to buy blue crystals. since they will be so expensive that it will not be worth it. literally a skin pack comes out 1000 blue crystals and with silver 2000.
or equally the objects will no longer be worth paying for. I want to clarify that I never loved the pay 2 fast theme of this game or any game, but if it reaches a point that it is no longer profitable to buy blue crystals, why? I hope you understand what I mean

[JustSmile]

Originally posted by -Drowned-:

Originally posted by JustSmile:

Why are people surprised. Of course they grow in cost, as people learn how to earn gold its value falls sharply while the crystals are tied to swiping.
They were bound to be extremely cheap the first couple weeks - they still are - but I'll be very surprised if they stabilise below 2000.

my problem is not that. The problem is that, for example, in the future it will be more profitable to pay than to collect gold to buy blue crystals. since they will be so expensive that it will not be worth it. literally a skin pack comes out 1000 blue crystals and with silver 2000.
or equally the objects will no longer be worth paying for. I want to clarify that I never loved the pay 2 fast theme of this game or any game, but if it reaches a point that it is no longer profitable to buy blue crystals, why? I hope you understand what I mean

Obviously? It's a korean freemium game, of course they expect you to swipe. There's reason why people are posting warnings that the game is very heavily p2w.

[Revilar]

Man if only i invested that one time i saw it for around 70g XD

[Tasty Bunny]

Gold : Crystal ratio is adjusted buy one factor only: Balance between-
1) people buying crystal(cash) with gold(intended non-paying player)
2) people want to sell their cash to gold(P2W player).

That's literally the only moving factor and you can use your head to see why it goes up.
It also, bound to be stabilized around Gold seller market price.

[JoHighnes]

But while blue crystals will cost more and more gold, the relation between selling goods and getting blue crystals will be fairly stable. You just get more gold and spend more gold. Doing the T2 guardian raids on one character can net 1000 gold just from selling the life leapstones.

Adding the upside that any static gold costs in the game, like honing and knowledge transfers, will become a lot more affordable as gold loses value.

[Taee]

Thank the chinese rice farmers for our inflated bc prices. It should have been hovering 200-300 still

[trev]

Originally posted by Taee:

Thank the chinese rice farmers for our inflated bc prices. It should have been hovering 200-300 still

I would have to agree that a decent portion of the inflation is due to the Gold Farmers. Proof is in the pudding.

[GoroMajima]

Originally posted by -Drowned-:

the worst thing is that as time progresses it will continue to rise. I don't know if it's the people or thanks to the bots that the price goes up. but so much gold for 95 crystals?

just wait when T1 and T2 content is nerfed.

[RJboxer]

All this talk about "nah that's the way the game works, its economics" or however they want to word it.. but saying the same thing.

1-- That's not how econ works. Since there are far more variables than a "2 party system" , with "only 2 products. Guns and butter". As has been stated, there are multiple variables, and GOLD sellers who are NOT factored into the design of the market.

2-- Wasn't there some Asian guy on Reddit (Seems pretty knowledgable) who makes videos, and does guides on "how to get to t3 fast" and he plays on the Korean server. He has ALL his math (which is done well, FYI) based on Crystals being 200ish gold.

In other words... did he do his calculations YEARS ago,, on the korean servers, and copy paste his data? (no, actually his videos are with NEW characters, on KOREA servers.. and used the math to help US/EU players). Or are the gold prices there way way way less.

I bought crystals for 138 when game came out.. week 1. Maybe day 5 or so.. Then next time I put in 190. Thought, "whoa it's going up". I never even got to buy it. It was 210 by time my "button" clicked.. and it HOLDS your gold while it waits for "190 seller". for 24 hours. By time I got gold back, it was over 300. lol.

Now it is close to 900 earlier today. I assume will be well over 1k by the weekend, and that has NOTHING to do with t3 people.

[GoroMajima]

Originally posted by RJboxer:

All this talk about "nah that's the way the game works, its economics" or however they want to word it.. but saying the same thing.

1-- That's not how econ works. Since there are far more variables than a "2 party system" , with "only 2 products. Guns and butter". As has been stated, there are multiple variables, and GOLD sellers who are NOT factored into the design of the market.

2-- Wasn't there some Asian guy on Reddit (Seems pretty knowledgable) who makes videos, and does guides on "how to get to t3 fast" and he plays on the Korean server. He has ALL his math (which is done well, FYI) based on Crystals being 200ish gold.

In other words... did he do his calculations YEARS ago,, on the korean servers, and copy paste his data? (no, actually his videos are with NEW characters, on KOREA servers.. and used the math to help US/EU players). Or are the gold prices there way way way less.

I bought crystals for 138 when game came out.. week 1. Maybe day 5 or so.. Then next time I put in 190. Thought, "whoa it's going up". I never even got to buy it. It was 210 by time my "button" clicked.. and it HOLDS your gold while it waits for "190 seller". for 24 hours. By time I got gold back, it was over 300. lol.

Now it is close to 900 earlier today. I assume will be well over 1k by the weekend, and that has NOTHING to do with t3 people.

buying crystals till crash happens on nerf day.

[BLANK]

Originally posted by -Drowned-:

the worst thing is that as time progresses it will continue to rise. I don't know if it's the people or thanks to the bots that the price goes up. but so much gold for 95 crystals?

I don't see the problem? It will rise even further. It will probably stop around 1.5k - 2k. If you play in T3 and have alts you can make thousands and thousands of gold per week. The average joe should make at least 30k with little effort in T3.

[Gjafar]

On les pupulated servers you pay more in AH, if you buy gold ingame for gems. Not fair...