NC soft needs to start sell Adena in the NC coin store so customers can bypass the hero's and people shouting to buy items for Nc coins gifted to them in exchange for BOT-Money Adena.
We the customers want to cut the middle person, the bots, out of the equation.
Let us buy Adena for NC coins and your bot issue will be resolved.
Bots sell 210 Million for 7 dollar, go to any town they shout it 24/7.
So to be able to compete with that NC soft will have to sell 250 Million for 5 Adena.
And a slight increase in drop rate for items like armour and weapons parts.
Go talk to your government right now, every economic problem can go away.. all they have to do is PRINT MONEY!
they already do that, where do you think the debt comes from, banks lend you money that is virtual.
They don't have the money actually in the bank when they loan you.
But they do expect you stupid customer to pay them back with real money.
I absolutely agree to cut out those people that buy items from NC coins for bot money, I think it is even worse then buying RMT because those are the people that run those hundreds and thousands of bots, making the game totally unplayable.
I saw so many of my friends quit because of these bots.
They weren't able to get passed 76, no place to hunt, raids down by bots all the time, all the hunting grounds lvl 70 upwards are like ant-swarms of bots.
New players don't stand a chance anymore.
This has to change.
And I truly do think adena for Nc coins is THE answer.
NC soft needs to start sell Adena in the NC coin store so customers can bypass the hero's and people shouting to buy items for Nc coins gifted to them in exchange for BOT-Money Adena.
We the customers want to cut the middle person, the bots, out of the equation.
Let us buy Adena for NC coins and your bot issue will be resolved.
Bots sell 210 Million for 7 dollar, go to any town they shout it 24/7.
So to be able to compete with that NC soft will have to sell 250 Million for 5 Adena.
And a slight increase in drop rate for items like armour and weapons parts.
And your bot-problem will go away
Do you ever know what will mean entering of fresh pixels billions in game from outside?
Black market is ~40$/1b, 40$= ~3200 coins/1b.
Imagine the 100 players buy and enter in server 1b each every 7 days (lets say the this will be max limit per char). You may transfer adena w/o problem. You may get any item so fast so price will up to sky. r95 weapons will be 10+b, r99 20/30+. armors r99 will be 50+, epic jewel 100+. PPL will play L2 OE 24/7. All will run with +10 sets red weapons. noting will be interesting ingame more...
they already do that, where do you think the debt comes from, banks lend you money that is virtual.
They don't have the money actually in the bank when they loan you.
But they do expect you stupid customer to pay them back with real money.
I think the video is kinda false propaganda. Anyone who knows people, can tell this girl was force fed this speech by adults and forced to memorize it, then speak it. You can see her trying so hard to memorize the words, without the meaning behind them.
Do you ever know what will mean entering of fresh pixels billions in game from outside?
Black market is ~40$/1b, 40$= ~3200 coins/1b.
Imagine the 100 players buy and enter in server 1b each every 7 days (lets say the this will be max limit per char). You may transfer adena w/o problem. You may get any item so fast so price will up to sky. r95 weapons will be 10+b, r99 20/30+. armors r99 will be 50+, epic jewel 100+. PPL will play L2 OE 24/7. All will run with +10 sets red weapons. noting will be interesting ingame more...
This is already the case with bot money...
Things are unaffordable for normal players even if they raid daily...
But u left out one thing out of the equation, real money
The pixel money will be bought with real money, and real money is limited
You can also regulate how much each player can get per level
U can limit the amount of adena to transfer to other servers
u can regulate everything, so there will be no cash overflow, but also so bots won't be needed anymore.
I meant print the amount of money that are in debt etc etc.
But okay, you're right.
My point was, you cant simply create money out of thin air like that.
Do i have to explain why?
No one can seriously be this stupid..
Your point is right but only for real life money. The game does not work this way. You can go kill mobs without using ss or anything and adena pops out of thin air so you see my point.
Entering adena as a ncoin product would only be ok if they were banning bots. If they input the one without taking out the other the adena sellers will just lower prices to minimum and the adena sink mechanisms of the game just wont work.
There are spots in game were bot trains can make huge amount of adena not to mention rbs (field and instanced ones). As an effect some botters have probably stockpilled billions since the need for them is not as much as the production. Imagine botters go on crazy sales and letting lets say 400 bilion go away in low low price like 20 $/bil or less. And in the same time all the adena deprived hard working legit players buy some bils each with lets say 40$/bil.
The outcome of the above is more than 1000bil entering the market in less than 2 days. By the end of the week even more will enter and there goes the market. Prices will be insanely high yet most ppl will still be poor. How many bils you think you can buy when 40$/bil 2? 3? 4?
Check current prices and you will see that even without the above apocalipse happening those 4 bils wont get you that far.
Putting adena in the store will cause the entire ingame economy to collapse.
Its only possible with a perfect mix of banning bots, limiting adena input from l2store etc.
Guess why no other game does this?
Putting a few items in circulation is not the same as putting adena, so dont even try to make that comparison.
what they should do...
is corrode the current adena.
no buying new adena, that wouldn't do anything but inflate prices more so than they are now. but by destroying the current Adena, they would be able to rebuild an economy from the ground up.
Putting adena in the store will cause the entire ingame economy to collapse.
Its only possible with a perfect mix of banning bots, limiting adena input from l2store etc.
Guess why no other game does this?
Putting a few items in circulation is not the same as putting adena, so dont even try to make that comparison.
Are you familiar with economy whatsoever ?
Look at Guildwars 2, doomsayers like you were afraid the same thing might happen, it didn't, u can exchange gold for items and items for gold , and real money for gold.
to top it off in Guildwars 2 the drop rate of items is insane and loots is awesome, micro transactions are great for a game, they work fabulously.
For both the customer and the game company it is huge profit.
I can only imagine u are one of them botfarmers if you are that opposed to getting money, any person sane of mind would never oppose this idea.
what they should do...
is corrode the current adena.
no buying new adena, that wouldn't do anything but inflate prices more so than they are now. but by destroying the current Adena, they would be able to rebuild an economy from the ground up.
well if u were present before GOD when the droprate was skyhigh, adena drops were at around 5000 to 25 000 per mob killed.
there was no inflation then.. things were a bit more affordable, but not by much.
In games like this, u never EVER have enough money, ... EVER...
Especially since they are going to boost the lvl cap to lvl 100 next patch
and final level in Lineage 2 will be lvl 120 ...
New armors for lvl 100 are very pretty btw, some kind of blue with a violet shine.
Knowing this, do you seriously think u will ever make enough money ?
as it stands, you can buy items from nc store which can be sold for adena.
this is more than reasonable legitimate players can make adena by using their real life money without introducing 762809 billion adena into the economy.
i suspect that due to the nature of this thread, and the name of the user, that this is just a Troll. heck probably just Martel messing with the ncsoft community.
You see the items that are really worth a lot like the amaranthine weapons , u need really a lot of NC HERO coins to get them, now people who are getting those weapons, are getting them trough bot money.
THAT is the problem we have now.
Live players are buying the Nc coins, but not to use them, they gift them away to the hero's shouting to buy Nc coins or whoever wants to buy Nc coins and they gift the item in exchange for BOT MONNEY.
Live players can't get to that kind of money by raiding or hunting since the drops rate is so ridiculous.
So cut those middle persons away, ... the bots will go away, ... most of the cheaters will go away... and the game will be back again like its supposed to be.
well if u were present before GOD when the droprate was skyhigh, adena drops were at around 5000 to 25 000 per mob killed.
there was no inflation then.. things were a bit more affordable, but not by much.
In games like this, u never EVER have enough money, ... EVER...
Especially since they are going to boost the lvl cap to lvl 100 next patch
and final level in Lineage 2 will be lvl 120 ...
New armors for lvl 100 are very pretty btw, some kind of blue with a violet shine.
Knowing this, do you seriously think u will ever make enough money ?
No I din't think so.
Do you realy play this game or bla bla for noting, year and half ago gf mobs drop 20k+ adena. I pay my set and weapon ~10b. Now Gf mobs drop 3k and my items if I sell will get 3b IF I have lucky. What is this if is not cut of all prices and items. And yes. to But GE same is price in ch then and now, to enchant skill is same then and now, to teleport is same then and now, cube prices change is same then and now... all is same just drop is cut.
And other say limit per acc, real money limit.... well read a bit in forum, you really belive the ppl is not mroe ppl lie Vood who have invest 5k $/month, even if then invest 1/5 of that that is a lot of money.
Especially since they are going to boost the lvl cap to lvl 100 next patch
and final level in Lineage 2 will be lvl 120 ...
New armors for lvl 100 are very pretty btw, some kind of blue with a violet shine.
Do you know the official date? :) Not fond of tracking this kind of information so am asking you. :)
Because it's inevitable anyways. Just do it. Like the OP says, and I've said it myself in the past, it's a sure fire way to stop them. What will they have to bot for to sell, if it's all sold from the official people, with safer, secure, unbannable service? If they add a leveling service as well (instant level pot or something), and gear (non shadow, non chance, just permanent gear, add $$ depending on what ++s you want, what SA you want, dark/bloody, element, etc..) then they'd have everything covered. Problem with the shop or any NC stuff is it's all a % chance. Get rid of the chance, and people will come to them vs. RMT.
Especially since they are going to boost the lvl cap to lvl 100 next patch
and final level in Lineage 2 will be lvl 120 ...
New armors for lvl 100 are very pretty btw, some kind of blue with a violet shine.
This is utter hogwash. Nothing in this statement is true.
As of "Prelude to the Journey", live in Korea on June 25, 2014, there is no more level cap whatsoever, neither 100 nor 120. And there are no new armors whatsoever, neither for lvl 100 nor for any other level. Official information about the next updates can be found here: http://boards.rochand.com/viewforum.php?f=52
There are serious economists who agree with that idea. The NCsoft developers, however, have adopted a slightly different approach. Being followers of Pol Pot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pol_Pot), who has pointed out 40 years ago that you only get a stable society when everybody is equally poor, they are forcing a deflation by reducing the adena drops while keeping the prices for Soul Ore etc. in the NPC shops stable. This is not actually destroying adena (which could be done for example by "erroneously" deleting the accounts of rich players) but gradually draining the dropped adena back into the server. In Korea this is quite successful, as you can see from the prices shown in this video from the Lionel server: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLozSdJ3m5A
And because of this success, the developers continue with their zero drop policy in the latest update: http://boards.rochand.com/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=1426&start=30#p30193
This is the current policy at the Lineage 2 Development Department, and no polls will change that.
And like many things, that policy just fails here. This is why NCwest should be willing and able to adjust for the market here, just like Innova does.
In game prices don't reflect the reality of the abysmal drop rates because there's people botting hundreds of billions in adena/mats/gear that are completely willing to throw it at things to try and be the best geared person around.
Throw in the ncoin items that they throw adena at for others to buy and it keeps prices from coming down like they should given how little adena the average player can really make.
I don't think, that necessary to buy Adena at all. If you want to some extra Adena you can get it through the L2store right now too.
First of all when you start to play with Lineage 2 need to decide you will causal or hardcore player.
If you choose the hardcore player you will have role in the Lineage 2 on your server without any cheat, also you will farm enough to have Adena. If even need some extra Adena L2store enough.
Many of the players in Lineage 2 who are in the top now plays since many many years, they not only have OP gear, because they use cheats, they had enough time to farm.
In L2 you need like 2 active year play time to be able to fight for top player category, if you haven't it, you can't achieve it thats all, if you feel it to hard go to play tetris.
you only get a stable society when everybody is equally poor, they are forcing a deflation
I get economics....but this is an old video game, not a country. Does anyone truly believe there's enough time to properly put the economy back together by breaking everyone's banks? Old players that are accustomed to having adena, would be frustrated and possibly leave. New players would be caught in the middle of the change and see the old players struggle, and would in turn struggle as well. Only after the economy in game is "fixed", would new players be able to come in and get anywhere. And by then, what will be left of the game? No marketing...negativity in the forums... I just don't know.
Whether the developers' approach makes sense or not is open to discussion. Fact is that since the Tauti update many old players in Korea are leaving. This has a number of reasons (for example the loveless design of the Guillotine Fortress), and since Koreans are not in the habit of making rage-quit good-bye posts (they just go away), a statistical analysis is difficult. But since the drop nerfs started in Tauti, this suggests itself as one of the major factors contributing to the decline of Lineage 2. In the lower left corner here we have for example the active players (as opposed to shop dwarves) on the Korean Kain server: http://lineage2.plaync.com/gameinfo/olympiad/lastOlympiadInfo?serverId=51
As you can see from the level structure, no new players are coming in. The vast majority are old players of lvl 99+. Unfortunately there is no archive of those statistics (what you see is real-time), so you will just have to believe me that the barely 1000 players left are significantly less than two years ago.
This is utter hogwash. Nothing in this statement is true.
As of "Prelude to the Journey", live in Korea on June 25, 2014, there is no more level cap whatsoever, neither 100 nor 120. And there are no new armors whatsoever, neither for lvl 100 nor for any other level. Official information about the next updates can be found here: http://boards.rochand.com/viewforum.php?f=52
There are serious economists who agree with that idea. The NCsoft developers, however, have adopted a slightly different approach. Being followers of Pol Pot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pol_Pot), who has pointed out 40 years ago that you only get a stable society when everybody is equally poor, they are forcing a deflation by reducing the adena drops while keeping the prices for Soul Ore etc. in the NPC shops stable. This is not actually destroying adena (which could be done for example by "erroneously" deleting the accounts of rich players) but gradually draining the dropped adena back into the server. In Korea this is quite successful, as you can see from the prices shown in this video from the Lionel server: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLozSdJ3m5A
And because of this success, the developers continue with their zero drop policy in the latest update: http://boards.rochand.com/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=1426&start=30#p30193
This is the current policy at the Lineage 2 Development Department, and no polls will change that.
Usually I agree with you Yidao but not this time.
It has been Disproven numerous times that Pol Pots theory has only one possible outcome: High Crime and Black market.
Exactly what is happening in Lineage 2, it has been shown to us in worldhistory many times and in all games with low gold/itmadroprate, they all face the same botproblem, wich is none other then crima and black market.
Secondly, Guys FEAST your eyes on the NEW ARMOR set:
Look at Guildwars 2, doomsayers like you were afraid the same thing might happen, it didn't, u can exchange gold for items and items for gold , and real money for gold.
to top it off in Guildwars 2 the drop rate of items is insane and loots is awesome, micro transactions are great for a game, they work fabulously.
For both the customer and the game company it is huge profit.
I can only imagine u are one of them botfarmers if you are that opposed to getting money, any person sane of mind would never oppose this idea.
why do you give GW2 for example ? ArenaNet DOESN'T sell gold, there is ingame trading platform where you can trade gems (you buy for IRL$$) for gold , but the gold come from other players, so if there is no players wanting to buy gems you can't trade your gems for gold. The GW2 system will be equal to NC implementing ingame trading platform where you can sell NCcoins for adena to other players, but the adena still need to be generated ingame by players not by NC.
why do you give GW2 for example ? ArenaNet DOESN'T sell gold, there is ingame trading platform where you can trade gems (you buy for IRL$$) for gold , but the gold come from other players, so if there is no players wanting to buy gems you can't trade your gems for gold. The GW2 system will be equal to NC implementing ingame trading platform where you can sell NCcoins for adena to other players, but the adena still need to be generated ingame by players not by NC.
Yes ,agree with you on that one, the system makes it so in Guildwars that by the abundance of drops and the desire to look good for players, there is a huge demand for gems and players HAVE a lot of gold from drops and crafting to exchange.
In the case of Lineage 2, imagine yourself a beginning player, try to put aside all the high level players out of your mind.
In the beginning most players don't know what to do, most players don't even know how to get steel door equipment, because it is left out of the starter guide.
So all the little bits of money they earn, they spend on armor and weapon, .. a big waste, but there is no one to guide them, clans don't accept any academy toon.
People don't accept mentee's often they have their own..
So as a beginning player, u see all those bot shops shout for very cheap Adena, u look at the prices in NC coin shop,...
What would you do as a beginning player ?
Most of them have no clue how to research or to lazy to do so...
The in game assistance to point out they can get gear from the proofs at lvl 40, non-existent... assistance on how to use steel door, doesn't exist...
That is why there needs to be better assistance for beginners, and better drops/Adena for beginners.
In a well regulated way this would not generate any excess money.
This is NOT Guildwars 2 after all, even though they have been taken over by NC soft, I have no clue on how the rights for the trading platform still belong to Arenanet or belong to Nc soft free to use .
if NC put adena in the ncstore , their price will be undercut by 10-20% from the adena sellers
if you lvld new toon you will know that you get chest with all the gear you need once you get the lvl for the grade up to s80, also you get pop up window with the quests for a lot of exp and steel coins
there arent many literally new players to the game, most are ppl coming from private servers and know whats l2 about
arenanat is sub company to NCsoft created to develop GW2, so everything arenanet have is NC property
also your options are pretty limited , where is the option "I will exchange NCcoin to other players for adena bcoz i am not lazy ***" or "I will actually play the game and make adena by myself"
I saw so many of my friends quit because of these bots.
They weren't able to get passed 76, no place to hunt, raids down by bots all the time, all the hunting grounds lvl 70 upwards are like ant-swarms of bots.
LOL biggest joke i'ver heard your friends either lazy or too dumb to know all spot to exp ..
on real subject this guy to sell in l2store adena , another joke ..what adena in l2store stop talking bs ,sell l2store for adena .. whats the problem? ... kids now day brainless and wants everything on silver plate , no wonder why name annonymous :D
LOL biggest joke i'ver heard your friends either lazy or too dumb to know all spot to exp ..
on real subject this guy to sell in l2store adena , another joke ..what adena in l2store stop talking bs ,sell l2store for adena .. whats the problem? ... kids now day brainless and wants everything on silver plate , no wonder why name annonymous :D
In the past u get 2k + from mobs and now you get like 200 adena from the mobs. Most new players aren't gonna know how to earn adena so they end up buying adena from the bots. Also there are people who have long working hours and unable to spend enough time in L2 to earn so they end up buying adena too. Beside the main problem here we have is bots issue. If no 1 buy adena from the bots we have no problem. Since there are quite a numbers of players who actually buy adena this creates demand for adena. I do agree that if you want to stop the bots u will have to cut off their demands and there are 3 ways.
1 you ban anyone who buy adena which is good luck catching them all
2 you take their businesses away buy selling what they are selling at a lower rate.
3 Or increase the drop rate of gear / adena
And yes sadly now a days kids give up too easily and I actually fear for them but if L2 is to resolve the problem. L2 will have to grow and change with the people.
I've been thinking about the concerns raised, and I still think that selling Adena in a controlled way is the best solution to deal with the bot problem, they could adapt the Guildwars 2 solution in here, but ... then I fear that it will still be bot-money being exchanged for NC coins, and it won't resolve the issue.
Second point:
The bots now get money from levelling a character from lvl 1 to 85 simply by selling all the enchants they get to NPC and selling all the Elemental stones they get, solution to that whitout punishing the new players, make those into *event Enchants* and *Event Elemental stones* so they be worth 0 Adena at the NPC store.
Third point:
Selling Adena in a controlled way in NC coin shop:
LVL 40 1 Time buy 2.5 million adena
LVL 60 1 Time buy 4.5 million adena
LVL 80 1 Time buy 8.5 million adena
LVL 85 1 Time buy 10 million adena
LVL 86 1 Time buy 15 million adena
LVL 87 1 Time buy 20 million adena
LVL 88 1 Time buy 25 million adena
LVL 89 1 Time buy 30 million adena
LVL 90 1 Time buy 50 million adena
From lvl 91 onwards being able to buy 10 million adena per month
limited 1 time per account.
Controlled this way, it actually replaces the adena that would have dropped in the past for your 15 dollar per month subscription.
Nothing too fancy, just enough to support casual players ...
Enough to let beginners want to buy Nc coins and not be seduced by bot-Adena Sellers.
are people really so slow they cant figure out how to make adena in this game? Im not talking about billions and billions, but couple hundred million a week/month depending on how much you play is really easy.
NC sells adena $5 for 200 mil then bots sell for $3. End of story your whole theory is over.
Adena will now be easier to come by and as stated previously the prices of everything will go up due to the numerous methods of being to get Adena.
Bots that have 99 lvl bot parties now get R99 drops that are worth 10x what they used to be so for them making adena is that much easier therefore the fact that they had to cut their price does not effect them.
It has been Disproven numerous times that Pol Pots theory has only one possible outcome: High Crime and Black market.
Exactly what is happening in Lineage 2, it has been shown to us in worldhistory many times and in all games with low gold/itmadroprate, they all face the same botproblem, wich is none other then crima and black market.
Secondly, Guys FEAST your eyes on the NEW ARMOR set:
Polls always can change a game
Some of my previous suggestions were actually implemented in this latest patch.
Never underestimate the power of 1.
uheuaheuaheauehuaehuaeha man ur so stupid, heauheuaheuaheau
u should watch the videos first before post please, first of all the armor u are talking about is the dragon(lindvior) armor but nc dont know if they should or not put into the game, there is a thread on korean forum about it and yidao already talk about it here too.
the video with skills ehauehauheauheuaheuah have u watched it? heauheuaheuaheuaheuaheauh dumb moron.
there is no LV cap, its unlocked, the new skills are from the NEW NOBLES STUFF that u get from 99-100-101 lv if u do the NEW NOBLES CHAIN QUESTS.
btw there are tons of videos about the new skills, like dagger that remove enemys armor in order to lower p.def, or the new dance/song or the archer new 3 skills!
dear lord the power of 1? ehauehauehauehauehauehauh that was hilarious. i lol hard.
please do us a favor, have u think about killing urself? do us that favor please, suicide now.
ABOUT THE ADENA, NCWEST WANT TO KILL THE GAME, I CANT BELIEVE U GUYZ DIDNT NOTICE IT AT ALL. NC ARE MAKING THE LEGIT PLAYERS QUIT, JUST KEEPING THE PPL THAT ACTUALY BUY NCCOINS AND BOT, THE NUMBERS ARE GOING DOWN EVERY MONTH, NO NEW PLAYER BASE.
THIS LL END LIKE ALL PRIVATE SERVERS DO, THOSE AWFUL 5000X PVP ONES WITH 10 GUYZ WITH "TOP GEAR" AND NO ONE ELSE.
And please take a look at the date on that post. This is what was discussed in the Development Department in April 2013. The Chief Developer at the time has been demoted to Overseas Localization Manager (he got Choi So-ra's position) and the Producer at that time has been fired. Plans change, and as of June 25, 2014 there is no more level cap in Korea, a feature that we will get as well in a few months.
The Lindvior Armor is a design study that has never made it into the game, not least of all because the Korean players have in March 2014 voted with 69% vs. 31% against more items: http://lineage2.plaync.com/promotion/l2lasico/season1/index
Older players may remember the Tysandy ("Dark Dynasty") weapons that could be found in the client around the Gracia updates, and which also never made it into the game. The Lindvior Armor is a similar thing.
The Developer Mode does have its uses, but you must know what you are doing. The people posting those Youtube videos obviously got a bit carried away. Here is the official NCsoft video of the new skills, which are all lvl 101, not 100: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pX5934t2DE
Again, here is the official information, with links to the original Korean sources: http://boards.rochand.com/viewforum.php?f=52
In the very first post of each thread you will find quick-links to the posts with confirmed information in the admittedly sometimes meandering discussion :)
As far as the adena-for-NCoin idea is concerned, NCsoft would certainly love to do that. Since, as previous posters have pointed out, prices in the Auction House will go up, people will be forced to buy more and more adena from NCsoft to keep up in the rat race. That's what's technically called "Hyperinflation": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_the_Weimar_Republic
are people really so slow they cant figure out how to make adena in this game? Im not talking about billions and billions, but couple hundred million a week/month depending on how much you play is really easy.
The problem in this game is too keep the casual players.
They get a playtime of less then 2 hours a day.
Barely enough to do Kartia solo, Kartia group if lucky to get one...
And swamp quest.
And that's it, they don't have more time then that, so explain to me, how are they supposed to make money ?
In the past the money that dropped from Swamp or in SOA would have been enough to make them able to buy/make shots and make them able to port around....
Now those players are left out.
All the parents ...
All the working people ...
All the people that value the game but also have a real life...
I don't think, that necessary to buy Adena at all. If you want to some extra Adena you can get it through the L2store right now too.
First of all when you start to play with Lineage 2 need to decide you will causal or hardcore player.
If you choose the hardcore player you will have role in the Lineage 2 on your server without any cheat, also you will farm enough to have Adena. If even need some extra Adena L2store enough.
Many of the players in Lineage 2 who are in the top now plays since many many years, they not only have OP gear, because they use cheats, they had enough time to farm.
In L2 you need like 2 active year play time to be able to fight for top player category, if you haven't it, you can't achieve it thats all, if you feel it to hard go to play tetris.
The new players I meet nowadays once they reach 85 are out of money to port around, shots cost toomuch, crystals cost too much, crafting costs too much, how are they supposed to make money, especially for casual players.
Never forget most players are casual, playtime 2-3 hours a day max.
arenanat is sub company to NCsoft created to develop GW2, so everything arenanet have is NC property
How ignorant can you be?
ArenaNet was founded by former Blizzard employees to develop Guild Wars. NCSoft is the game's publisher.
Guild Wars 2 is still ArenaNet's field of expertise, no wonder they can do pretty much what they want with the game.
ArenaNet was founded by former Blizzard employees to develop Guild Wars. NCSoft is the game's publisher.
Guild Wars 2 is still ArenaNet's field of expertise, no wonder they can do pretty much what they want with the game.
how ignorant and clueless you can be ? arenanet is owned by NCsoft , and arenanet is the publisher for GW
I don't think, that necessary to buy Adena at all. If you want to some extra Adena you can get it through the L2store right now too.
The major problem with this is that it's reliant upon people in game having the adena to pay for these items. And right now that means that only people who have pretty sizeable adena incomes/reserves are going to be setting the price for these and buying them in any numbers that could drive the in game economy.
Most items you can get won't npc at all, or if they do, for a pittance.
Buying and selling just a few won't get you enough adena to do much, the value of in game items is far too high.
And in an ideal world where the bots were destroyed and these people running trains 24/7 no longer had that income, there would no longer be much of a market for these items.
Now, this is not pro or anti selling adena for ncoin. Just that the model right now of ncoin items for adena from players is not one that is inherently sustainable without a strong in game economy... which basically doesn't exist right now.