Finally a person who understands that life is not just some number in a virtual game i totally agree with you :)
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Finally a person who understands that life is not just some number in a virtual game i totally agree with you :)
But you are more than happy to screw the little guy to get at them though
Another good way to save gold would be to sell ur gold that you got now.. for coins and after 2 months WHEN price and gold ration will be normal buy the gold back.. ?? profit.. xD
again, you're missing the point
last year's gold squish was a success because it coincided with a gold rate change
unless you nerf gold rates again (hello x1) there's no logical reason to squish gold again
Ok lets take your example and just by the easiness of it lets say when you stop play the server stop changing gold. So everyone has the exact same ratio of gold when you stopped playing. Everyone has -50% less every time. The only difference this makes is that it will become more expensive buying in game stuff like riding skill and such. But your "richness" compared to the rest of the server will stay the same.
Wait, is it a late April 1st 2017 joke? Cus if so, I mean, you can be late, but 6 months late?
On a more serious note, even though I am currently inactive, I do agree with most people here. Last year the reduction worked so that the gold earned before rate change would be more or less equally worth to the gold earned after the rate change. This time there is no reason for it. And, if I can believe what I've read in these 14 pages, inflation is minimal, therefore that cannot be a reason as well. So, if I may ask, Mercy, Proterean and whoever else is here, what are the reasons you consider the last reduction worked and what - that this one will?
He left at the end of 2016, wants to come back at the beginning of 2019 with a new alt. He has 8 times less gold, yet spell prices and riding prices stay the same. He wants to go raiding with his old chars? Guess what, the repair prices are the same, even with 8 times less gold. (In either case if he doesnt buy AH items the other people's gold doesn't matter, matters the ratio between his gold change and the price change).
Isn't that exactly what I said?
It makes it more blizzlike, which I don't mind at all. But my point with my posts here is that almost everyone here speak as if they knew better than the staff what will happen? It's not like the staff doesn't play the server and know what is going on. Just have some faith in them.
no it doesn't because rn the economy's stable, and it'd only make sense to cut existing gold if one were to half (or more) the gold rates along with it
that was the main impetus for the last squish, in fact
Please listen to all these people and try to find a better solution. It isn't that easy to get gold for some people who cannot farm and all. Some people play for 2 -3 hrs a day and collect upto 10k gold in a month so they will lose 5k for no reason and it will hurt their in game economy.
That might be true, but this gold squish might have other factors playing in? For example those gold farmers (Which I don't say this is the most effective way to get to them). For inflation purposes, what is a better way to fight inflation than devaluation of the currency?
That's not relevant to the point I was responsding to. Now is it?
Exactly what I wanted to reply.
Retail servers have never done such thing, NOT EVEN AFTER WOW-TOKEN-BOOM
Here, staff never cared about what we said on these things anyway. So, hell... don't waste your arguments.
The others will keep earning gold, he doesn't. So no, not the same. They have the recovery time he doesn't, therefore, at the point he actually does want to purchase something from AH, he needs 8 times more gold (for example, an item he needs cost 800, it again costs 800 cus economy has recovered, but instead of the 1000 he has only 250, therefore he cannot afford the item anymore).
Do you even read what I write? Again I am quoting myself from above.....
And I find your statement a bit contradicting. So if the server recover 100% of the initial gold squish but as you said he haven't played at all and thus only have 25% of the initial gold. With the inflation of the server what stops the server from growing from the inital 100% to lets say 400%? Nothing if you don't devalue the currency. And besides, if he stops playing what gives him the right to come back to the exact economy he left? Things change over time and he just needs to adapt to it.