Business And Economy Archive

The real reasons behind nerfing high credits sources has more to do with trying to slow down 3rd parties outside the game trying to make r/l money by selling credits.

You go to IGE, you see millions and millions of credits for sale. WHere do you think all those credits come from?

What SOE did was to nerf IGEs easy access to credits for resale.

I mentioned this in another post but outfits like IGE manipulate the hell out of MMO economies for their own profit. They know players can be stupidly impaitent and want the best things NOW. They go out and get a lock on spawns, on high end items, they use the 3rd party macro programs to automate their credit/loot harvesting.

They in turn take those millions of credits they pharm, sell them to you for real $$$ then they run merchants who sell high end items for millions of credits (the merchants who never seem to lower their prices) and then you run and give the credits you purchased right back to IGE. Rinse then repeat. It has made MILLIONS of real $$$ for IGE and their kind.

All they while they stay in the shadows in the game as the players all scream at SOE for having a borked economy when in fact the economy is borked by unscrupulous 3rd parties who have made a business exploiting the impaitence of some players. They even further themselves by buying up fan sites, publishing the guides which instruct players to seek out the things they are selling.

Honestly, if you people paying for this million credit crap would simply NOT BUY IT, they would have no choice but to drop the prices or go away. But the hard truth is that the million+ credit stuff DOES SELL. You dont need SOE to fix anything, you already have the ablility to fix things by not paying those prices.