Merchant Archive

So I read in the SWG discussion forum about this raise in vendor prices that is coming , so i head on over, being a merchant myself. I read about it, I think it stinks and post my opinion.

Then i read our corresponts list for week six, posted on 8/18/03 complaining about vendor costs being too high. I look at the post from Q3PO about the vendor costs....8/25/03. Hmmmm

Our correspondent brings up the issue that vendors are too expensive, and then a week later they announce they are raising the costs? Does that not strike anyone else but me as odd? When I see this all I can say is this: Correspondent = public relations ploy to make it look like they are listening to us. Nothing more.

You guys(Devs) are changing so many things, so much, so constantly, that it's hard for me to rely on this game to be consistant on a daily, weekly, monthly basis. I understand that some of these things are things that need to be balanced, fixed, whatever, yada yada yada. It's still retarded whatever your reason. Especially when some of it should have worked out of the box!

I would like to see someone who knows something about both economics and this game speak at length about this economy, how it's doing, what it needs, and where it looks like its going speak at length in this forum. I find it hard to belive that some super geek developers know what it takes to make a thriving economy. If they have an economist on board advising them, great, can we hear from him/her please? Maybe we can get answers that make sense? Please?

The more I think about this the more I tend to come to the conlusion that this really is a database issue and it's being painted up to look like something else. They didn't expect so many people to take off on crafting, or grind away at the xp by making useless items. They are so shocked by people grinding away!! You would think they had never played another mmorpg before and tried to go up a skill tree. If the database can't handle all the items then upgrade the database. You guys have a ton of money from all of us poor suckers out here playing your buggy piece of crap, spend it!

I've seen a lot of posts. Good posts, bad posts you name it.I figured they would straighten things out and have refrained from really joining in on the criticisms and whatnot, waiting to see how things would shake out. Doesn't look like they are shaking out too good.

The people in charge of the Merchants Class..wait.. si there anyone watching over this class? I don't think so, but if there is, they have no economic skills and just a lot of OUR DATABASE NEEDS TO BE SMALLER skills.

SOE always completely breaks something,, over nerfs a class, or completely destroys something before they fix it.