03-27-2012, 02:29 PM
There were more ways to earn money on IN1, even AFK, tailoring fancing shirts or smithing gorgets was big money done overnight. Monster hunting was also no less profitable. Armour prices were also lower, even Sapph was more like 250-500k at most.
So I'm not sure I agree with your assessment of what will happen. Expecting big money in trading low end gear whilst stockpiling mid or high end gear isn't a business model I want to be encouraging really. I also appreciate that people like having rarity value in some items and craftables and the fact is that Sapph is still going to cost many 100's of k, but we are simply making things a little more logical and hopefully making it more economical to wear mid-range armour to hunt and to PvP.
All theory aside the problem is clear, if I jump from player to player I mostly see naked people, people in shop-bought iron plate, and a few people in other trash armour. That isn't a good system for the economy or for the quality of PvP or for the fun of risk/reward in PvP or monster hunting. I also look at vendors and for most of them the turnover isn't great. Better prices, better turnover and higher use of armour would be good for the economy, for PvP, for hunting and for crafters. Part of that is these changes discussed here, and another part will be when we look at spells and how they work and if we should do something to make armour useful there as well (don't start talking about that now though because it really isn't a developed idea).
So I'm not sure I agree with your assessment of what will happen. Expecting big money in trading low end gear whilst stockpiling mid or high end gear isn't a business model I want to be encouraging really. I also appreciate that people like having rarity value in some items and craftables and the fact is that Sapph is still going to cost many 100's of k, but we are simply making things a little more logical and hopefully making it more economical to wear mid-range armour to hunt and to PvP.
All theory aside the problem is clear, if I jump from player to player I mostly see naked people, people in shop-bought iron plate, and a few people in other trash armour. That isn't a good system for the economy or for the quality of PvP or for the fun of risk/reward in PvP or monster hunting. I also look at vendors and for most of them the turnover isn't great. Better prices, better turnover and higher use of armour would be good for the economy, for PvP, for hunting and for crafters. Part of that is these changes discussed here, and another part will be when we look at spells and how they work and if we should do something to make armour useful there as well (don't start talking about that now though because it really isn't a developed idea).