selling off market? now?

from a different thread but true logic





Originally Posted by Texarkana
I think it is, significantly, until atleast Tuesday. And, then longterm, once stock is exhausted, the "not-so-good" purples will rise to that 300m watermark, with the "good" purples rising even higher, but no where near pre-i22 levels.



I don't think so, for the simple reason that farmers (1%/ebil marketers) are far more the exception, and I assume most players may not have that much funding by the time i22 hits. As noted, those folks in the upper class are set, but as purples drop in price, I don't see much of a way for the middle or lower classes to get a leg up (aside from ATOs which are not acquired through any in-game means).



I'm actually a little concerned about the game based on this progression.
Before inventions, people basically farmed for INF directly and might occasionally score the diamond in terms of Hami's or Titans (assuming they'd be willing to sell it off).
When inventions came, farmers had...more to farm for, but farming became more accessible to everyone in terms of reaping, particularly when it came to Magic salvage.
Reward merits and AE tickets were the equivalent of the Louisiana Purchase -- the west was opened. More fertile land to reap in terms of salvage. People could simply buy up needed salvage with those currencies and plug it into recipes, or else could also sell that salvage off without necessarily having to invest time in acquiring INF first.
Continuing that analogy, although the Lousiana Purchase "opened up farmland", there were still veins of precious metals out there to be found (i.e. Purple recipes and respec recipes). We call it farming for recipes, but in reality those folks were panning for gold, and when they found it, it freqently was the mother lode, as evidenced by the offline arrangement of transactions.
Then comes along Incarnate Rewards in terms of Astral and Empyrean Merits as well as Alignment Merits. Althought slightly time-locked, purples are now purchaseable with direct, farmable currency and consequently, we have the rise of the true 1% (see The_Masque from November to December 2011 for an example) who really worked the system and profited from it.
Superpacks come along a few weeks back and now we have Reward-merits galore. For those folks sustaining themselves on orange salvage sales at 2-3million INF per pop, I fear their days are numbered.
And then, of course, converters come out on Tuesday, making any purple a possible unique with enough converting, which will impact all the high value uniques. In this case, getting a toon to 50 and committing to running every trial successfully every day over the course of a week in order to nail that one big 2billion inf score on a shield wall or gladiator starts to fizzle.
2 billion can go a long way for most people (min/maxers and ebil marketers aside). Basically, I think anyone new to the game or relatively casual/middle classed in terms of total inf holding will...lose a significant method/opportunity to improve their economic standing in the game.
I am shocked and surpirsed by your analasiys in that i cannot spell and that i did not thikn of this.

2 billion can go a long way for most people (min/maxers and ebil marketers aside). Basically, I think anyone new to the game or relatively casual/middle classed in terms of total inf holding will...lose a significant method/opportunity to improve their economic standing in the game


this is a very big deal you are correct. I was only thinking of myself. But this change will make poor (influ-wise) even poorer.


Very good point

My view of the market:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZHCVyllnck

Does whether it's okay depend on whether the seller knows about the upcoming changes?

This is great. We haven't had a good ol' fashioned "marketeers are ebil!" thread in a while. This brings back memories...

This thread is very funny.

The OP is entirely wrong. Even if this was the real-world, buyer beware would apply. The upcoming changes are publicly available information, those who don't know about them only have themselves to blame.