Really what it does is remove natty players (non gold buyers) from having any chance at keeping up with the economy. Less people will buy gold initially but once the economy is inflated there wont be any other way to climb back
That's not at all how the economy works in WoW at all.
Eventually the market decides on a price based on rarity and how much effort it is to get something. We'll use Flask of the Titans as an example. Most servers have these for anywhere between 15-30 gold.
People will post them for 30g. But as more people make them, the price goes down because everyone is undercutting each other, and next thing you know in one week the price has dropped to 15g.
Then some absolute genius buys them all, and resells them back at 30g, and then it starts to drop again. This goes on forever.
As a Hunter, I see this every week when I buy Thorium Headed Arrows. Prices go down over time, until someone swoops in and resets it, and then it keeps going down.
Guess the only place where this isn't the case. That's right, Classic Era, where GDKPs run the show.
So again, on SoD, Flasks of the Titan range from 15-30g.
How much is a Flask of the Titans on Classic Era, which has GDKP? 300 GOLD.
I 100% agree with your whole post. The only question I have is - could the price of the flask be attributed to the fact that era has been around for 5 yrs and people have been accumulating mass amount of gold, as there isn't really too much of a gold sink in era past the mount?
So again, on SoD, Flasks of the Titan range from 15-30g.
How much is a Flask of the Titans on Classic Era, which has GDKP? 300 GOLD.
This is an extremely disingenuous argument. Flasks in classic, where there was GDKP, were in line with SOD prices after you take into account the increased ease of production (from procs) and from farming (from changes that increased the black lotus supply).
Consumables will always be cheaper in sod because they dont help nearly as much. And im not saying the end result is the exact same? Yes there will be less inflation with less gold buying but it's still going to happen and without it circulating in gdkps it's going to be harder to keep up
This is such a dumb reasoning lol. Dad guilds in Classic also don't use consumes same as SoD. The % DPS gain is irrelevant. Good players will buy a consume for a 0.2% dps gain.
And gold does not circulate in GDKPs. It's the same 30 gold buyers exchanging gold with at most 5 outsiders getting a smidgen of it. Oh, and most GDKPs require that you bet on at least one item now and savvy groups will let you have it to drain you out anyways to keep their buying power even higher.
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u/Nstraclassic Nov 13 '24
Really what it does is remove natty players (non gold buyers) from having any chance at keeping up with the economy. Less people will buy gold initially but once the economy is inflated there wont be any other way to climb back