06-07-2012, 12:35 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-07-2012, 10:33 PM by MongoJerry.)
(06-06-2012, 11:39 PM)RedRadical Wrote: The gold sink will NOT fix the inflation, and will almost certainly be completely ineffective - mark my words. The fact of the matter is, you can put all the gold sinks in the world there, and the people who control the games economy laugh, and laugh, and laugh some more, because there is no "regulation" on what they can charge. Do you really honestly believe gold sinks are going to deter, much less fix inflation? Lets get serious here, it aint gonna happen.
OK, so you're not really interested in inflation. What you want is for the rich players to be taxed at a higher rate than poorer players, I guess? Take away gold from players, but not mine, right?
In-game inflation is caused by more money going into the economy than is going out. That why the game needs more money sinks to prevent inflation. If properly done, 1g should buy you about the same amount of goods three months from now as 1g does now. Right now, however, people are earning gold quickly and there isn't much to spend it on -- except for sending it to other players in exchange for items. Thus, except for the 15% AH cut, the gold doesn't disappear. If the situation continues, gold will eventually become as worthless as it was in D2, which I think would be a shame.
Now, none of this has to do with the stuff you're railing about. If someone puts up an item for what you consider to be an outrageous price and someone actually buys it, then that means that someone out there was able to scrape up that outrageous amount of money at a quick enough rate that it was worth spending that money on that item. That's not the seller's fault. After all, the seller is merely selling at a price that he or she thinks he or she can get. The issues are first that someone was able to accumulate that gold at a rate so fast in the first place and second that the accumulated gold was worth so little intrinsically that it was worthwhile to just shovel it all over for one item.
If there were more valuable gold sinks in the game, however, then someone might pause to consider whether shoveling all that gold over would be a good idea.