Thoughts about marketing.

[sF_Guardian]

Occupy donkeystreet!

[Rumblood]

I thought this was going to be some big write-up on how to better market c-rpg. I was misled and demand mob justice! 

[Paul]

Not going to happen, market balances itself.

ib4 speculative bubble

[Latrinenkobold]

Dunno whats your problem just win the lottery like me 

[Penitent]

Also its realy easy to earn money, i make 200k in 5 days when i play in low equip armor.

No you don't.
Even with ZERO upkeep you'd have to have a 5x for 13.3 hours to make 200k.

I'm sorry, we...we don't believe you.

[Miwiw]

You can play cRPG perfectly OK without joining the market.

Sadly this is what many people do not get. Even without selling a loompoint it is possible first to farm some gold and then wear heavy gear and pay the upkeep without losing all the gold.

If you have a main char above level 31 and dont retire anymore, just create an alt...

[BlackMilk]

I think someone calculated that the gold earned for playing 1 gen is like 350k (not including upkeep...just the raw "value" of 1 gen).

148h and 12 minutes are needed to reach level 31 on gen 1 assuming that multi is approximately 1,8.
12+(148*60)=8892 minutes. 88892 minutes*50 gold/minute=444'600 gold.

[oprah_winfrey]

I seem to remember when I first started playing there was no marketplace...

[Penitent]

148h and 12 minutes are needed to reach level 31 on gen 1 assuming that multi is approximately 1,8.
12+(148*60)=8892 minutes. 88892 minutes*50 gold/minute=444'600 gold.

Ah yes, this seems more accurate.  I think the 1st loom points were going for 450k, not 350k as I first thought.

[Kafein]

Not going to happen, market balances itself.

This obviously.

And also, giving any further advantages to level 30+ characters would simply be wrong. Being level 34 is much more powerful than having 6 loom points, no matter how many loom points you already have.

[Leshma]

Sell everything you have for gold, because when new XP and gold system kicks in prices are going down big time. Currently anyone can play as a peasant with a pitchfork and make 350k per gen. With new score system you won't get many points using that gear unless you're pro among pros. Noobs will get little to no gold compared to current system. Pros will earn gold but that will also mean they'll start using more expensive gear for even better results.

Less gold in circulation = lower prices

Currently I have almost 8 million gold and I'm trying to sell looms I have left for some decent prices but it's not going very well. I can probably sell them for roughly one million each but I'm still not sure will everything go according to my plans.

[Kafein]

I get what you mean PTX, but market can't balance itself alone, I won't make an essay on evolution again here, but a "living" system is changed and fixed by the things (people) who make it up.

If someone fixes the price for a thing at -lets say- 500k, people following will think "and why the hell should I get less money than him for the same thing, I'll fix the same price! oh wait, 10k less for the commercial aspect." It's a chain reaction again, and If it starts in the wrong way, it continues in the wrong way unless someone/something "regulates" it to make it accessible to the largest part and not only to the people fixing it.

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Actually the heirloom point market is almost a perfect market (except for the tax). All the products are exactly the same, everybody knows exactly what is sold. What happens is the seller puts his offer and the buyer will always buy the cheapest heirloom point. All sellers are fighting to get the deal and the only way to be better than others is to sell cheaper. The guy that puts an offer asking for more is only going to wait for a very long time. This is ECON-101 tbh.

[22nd_deprav]

Yes I know that but it seemed I just under-estimated the amount of gold earned in a generation.

Which make my whole point obsolete. So yeah, sorry about that.

[Kafein]

Leshma shhh

[Blueberry Muffin]

Theres no such thing as a 'natural value'. Things have the value people attach to them, no more, no less. And the value that people attach to one generation of grinding is roughly 600k ingame crpg gold.

It is funny how little facts of life are present in all things, even on a generated market on a computer game.