What's behind the drop in prices?

[fastboy21]

Originally Posted by Brut [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

What Velious pixels do people think they're buying?
Prty sure there aint gonna be no armor MQs or Lodi Shields up for grabs for nearly half a year, no matter how much plat you'd throw up.

armor MQs will be for sale almost on day 1. guilds here are more than equipped/knowledgeable to farm them with small grps or even solo.

[HeallunRumblebelly]

Originally Posted by fastboy21 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

armor MQs will be for sale almost on day 1. guilds here are more than equipped/knowledgeable to farm them with small grps or even solo.

Not halls of testing (the only mq you'd actually, y'know, buy). Those (especially plate) will be rare for 3-5 months, but eventually it'll become a cash camp I'd imagine.

[fastboy21]

why do you think folks wouldn't be interested in thurg MQs? especially BPs.

[Splorf22]

I think 95% of the market is going to be plane of mischief cards and Dwarf MQs. After a few months maybe the Dragon/Giant ones too. Everyone is going to want full sets for their 10 alts.

[HeallunRumblebelly]

Originally Posted by fastboy21 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

why do you think folks wouldn't be interested in thurg MQs? especially BPs.

Because they're not BiS. And people have a hardon for BiS [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[fastboy21]

mischief cards will be interesting...on live this was something that i never really got into or even knew anyone that did the pom stuff.

[sunmilk]

Originally Posted by Splorf22 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Pretty much what has been said so far: summer slump in population, velious on the horizon, RMT ban wave.

I don't think Red has much to do with it. If someone sells gear for pp to swap over to Red, presumably the buyer will just buy blue gear again.

I don't think you understand what liquidity means, or why someone who is trying to transfer their wealth from one server to the next would want to have their assets liquidated... The question in the OP is what is behind the drop in (blue) prices. Blue players with blue items who want to transfer their wealth to red want to convert their blue items to blue plat so they can trade their blue plat for red plat. (They "liquify" their gear for plat because plat/currency is more GENERALLY desirable--you understand this).

These blue players that are transferring to red have a demand for red plat that is time sensitive. Obviously people would rather start with plat/gear at level 1, than start at level 1 with nothing and grind to level (??) before being able to transfer plat to buy gear and equip their character. So these people are willing to make sacrifices... they are not trading 1:1 blue to red, they are not selling their blue items for the full value they could otherwise fetch... they are willing to take a loss in wealth on blue for an immediate gain in wealth on red. And that is (at least part) of why blue items will be selling for discounted prices.

Also, when you talk about the "buyer (of the blue plat) will just buy blue gear again", that is pretty short sighted. First of all, there are a lot of people who don't currently (or formerly) play on blue that trade red:blue and blue:red simply for profit-making purposes. If you think this is weird, then you still don't understand the concept of liquidity or why liquidity has value. A person who is selling x-server plat has an easy means of generating plat on either or both servers simultaneously. You are making the blatantly false assumption that the "buyers" of this blue plat are 100% people who are coming over to blue to in a sense, replace the red seller. I gave a counter example before with x-server traders, but you can also see this trend reflected in the general population declines/increases over the past weeks (since the last patch went live).

[Man0warr]

AoN doesnt drop from Zlandi

[Splorf22]

Originally Posted by sunmilk [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

nonsense

I love you how you inferred my ignorance of multiple topics from one sentence. Congratulations on a textbook strawman, not to mention a poor understanding of macroeconomics (hint: if those people buying the blue pp don't want to buy blue items, why not?)

[HeallunRumblebelly]

Originally Posted by Man0warr [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

AoN doesnt drop from Zlandi

Hrm, right you are. Not sure why I thought that. Just have to wait on the fear revamp then.