Constructive feedback for the economy
Hello dear Warmane community.
As a former developer myself, I'm greatly impressed on how this server was made and I'm thankful for having such an amazing WoTLK server around.
I was solemnly checking your website offers that come with donations and such and I noticed something that seemed really odd to me.
Let me explain:
You allow players to sell their Gold, for a settled amount of price that they decide themselves.
While this is good till now, there's something that I don't really get. You have to pay a certain amount of coins to just post a trade, which is at 10%.
Now, your pricing of each coin is relatively high, so you're enforcing players to take the risk of posting a trade and losing real money.
Until now, everything's fine and I quite agree with the service fee.
Now, what triggers me is that the buyers get the full amount of Gold.
I'm going to explain further on why this is wrong:
- The seller has taken the risk of losing its Sell, so technically Coins.
- The buyer has a better purchasing power since they generally are coming to this part of the website to make easy Gold.
- A new player can eventually come to the Server, donate for Coins and take all the offers that he wants without having a single form of downside, besides the Coin which are not TAXED.
- This kinda affects your "inflated" economy, because it's all in all extremely worth to buy Gold (this, of course, depends on the offers).
Now, I know what are going to be the answers to this.
"If prices are taxed when you buy, there will be less demand."
While this is true, when you do have Coins, people will not mind much having a fee which should go to the equal amount of fee that you pay to post the Service or even higher (this will balance the farmers more).
I don't know how the duration works since I never had the chance to post anything, but the 1 day to 3 days is meaningless, since no one is going to use lower if they don't get any benefits from it.
Let me know what you think!