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Originally Posted by Vendetta Wish
One key factor to this discussion which has not been mentioned is if GW2 will be charging a monthly access fee. If this happens
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Originally Posted by noneedforclevernames
Who cares..
Everyone should be playing Brood War by now for SC2, or awaiting the arrival of Diablo 3. If you're honestly planning on buying GW2 with how ANET treats current GW players (Not even doing monthly updates, not adding new content, not even nerfing clearly unbalanced skills). If it is possible to do every dungeon in the game with 3 or less people, you need to nerf something, yet ANET won't do that in order to keep MORE PLAYERS. All ANET cares about for GW and GW2 is MORE PLAYERS, they don't care about YOU. So, yes Guild Wars items will become worthless, But so will Guild Wars 2 items in the long run (Probably less time than it took Guild Wars, however) |
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Originally Posted by noneedforclevernames
Who cares..
Everyone should be playing Brood War by now for SC2, or awaiting the arrival of Diablo 3. If you're honestly planning on buying GW2 with how ANET treats current GW players (Not even doing monthly updates, not adding new content, not even nerfing clearly unbalanced skills). If it is possible to do every dungeon in the game with 3 or less people, you need to nerf something, yet ANET won't do that in order to keep MORE PLAYERS. All ANET cares about for GW and GW2 is MORE PLAYERS, they don't care about YOU. |
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Originally Posted by Bugr
Will the economy in Guild wars suffer a recession when GW2 comes out.
 Will all those ecto become worthless, what do you think?  |
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Originally Posted by Martin Alvito
The effects will all be on the demand side.
When the announcement about HoM in GW2 comes out, the price of everything that can be meaningfully added for GW2 will spike and the price of everything that cannot will crash. The biggest question mark is the impact of dedicating a pet. If you can have a Panda follow you around in GW2, expect the price of the remaining undedicated Pandas to head even further into the stratosphere. If the benefits are derived from the number of pets you dedicated (or the benefit sucks), expect those prices to nosedive. The price of things that you cannot take with you will also crash. People won't care as much about things like dedicated pets and Eternal Blades. Expect the community to slowly shift away from ectos to zkeys and armbraces during the run up to GW2. Don't expect a huge move in the price of things like party/sweet/drunkard points, because there's already a ton of them out there. |
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Originally Posted by imnotyourmother
ok here is what I think will happen.
Guild Wars has 2 economies running now already. One in post and one in Presearing. Dyes in post say orange are almost worthless because they are easily obtainable in post. Just go to the dye trader and get one. In pre its not so easy. People are WILLING to pay 100 gold for an orange dye. They are not willing to pay 500 gold for one so they wait for one at the price they are willing to pay. Since the Supply of Orange dye is such that the "drop" rate makes it common place they can be commonly found rather quickly. Just go to ascalon in presearing and type wtb Orange dye for 200 dye and you will get 10 hits in the first 3 seconds because your price is such that people are willing to yield that dye for that price and make a PROFIT. The reverse is typing wtb Orange dye for 10 gold and you will not ever get a hit about actually buying an Orange dye as people telling you your price is to low but you can get one of theirs for say 50-75 gold. Thus the market sets the price of the dye between 50-100 gold. To verify this check out www.presearing.com and you will see that the Orange dye is exactly between 50-100 gold low and high prices respectively. Also SPECULATION can drive up the price of an item even though it is not warranted. In real Life this is called the futures market. This is why the stock market crashed - I know i am simplifying a lot but bare with me. the Dow was at 14,000 and fell to 9,000 (again general rounded numbers) that loss of 5,000 points was not of real goods and services but PRECEIVED VALUE of the goods or service...OIL was one of them. Last year Oil was almost at 5 bucks a gallon cause the MARKET PLACE could afford to pay that price. Once people started to change their ways and use less of the oil there was more on the market than PRECEIVED so the price had to fall. So people thought or projected that the price would be X when really it was Y. the difference was a Loss of real money on an Imaginary System. No Oil existed but the money did. Once there was too much oil and the Arab Nations saw that they decreased production trying to compensate for the loss of revenue and deplete the stockpiles and the price of Oil then rose again. Supply and Demand. So what do we know about GW2 that will effect our buying and our collecting of goods and services. Only ONE thing is known. THE HALL OF MONUMENTS. Here is an actual excerpt from the GW2 website... "However, your original Guild Wars character names will be reserved for your use in Guild Wars 2. The Hall of Monuments in Guild Wars 2 recognizes the accomplishments commemorated by your original Guild Wars characters and provides you with unique rewards to showcase those achievements." The words UNIQUE REWARDS is the SPECULATION. From here we can break this down into 5 parts cause there are 5 monuments in the Hall of Monuments. I will just focus on the one that takes WEAPONS as an example. Destroyer weapons can be added. IF in GW2 you have a War and your GW1 toon has a destroyer sword in the Hall of Monuments and the GW2 toon has access to that weapon this would qualify as SPECULATION. However the Value of that would rest in whether or not the GW2 toon could SELL that weapon or if it was customized to that toon only. We know... 1) When the destroyer weapon is placed in the hall of monuments it gets customized. Therefore it could be SPECULATED that it will be customized to "account in GW2" since the Hall of Monuments is ACCOUNT BASED. Therefor the weapons from the Hall of Monuments will be able to be used by GW2 toons but not traded and their value is reduced to dust. So no point in filling that monument unless the weapons can be bought and sold in GW2. This same Logic would apply for PETS since they are customized. Hero's are customized as well I do believe. This leaves Armor..well that is customized as well. Pets are customized too like the Black Widow... so that leaves only the titles. So my Speculation is as a result of the following... THE TRAVELER!!! Since the advent of the traveler there are more and more consumables out there. The sweet tooth and the party animal FUTURES will increase to 160-200 gold per point to give those with less than 10 titles..well 10 titles. Why? The "look of the Hall of Monuments changes at 10 maxed titles" So whatever helps people get to 10 maxed titles will increase. So my prediction for the economy if GW1 is this. There will be less and less people playing GW1 with all of the hype that will surround the release of GW2. Thus the economy with become stagnated as less people play for Gold and more for TITLES. Service that are rendered for Missions and Bonus's will be more and more expensive as time goes on as there will be less people playing GW1 and people need these for the protector titles (4 of them i do believe). This is total SPECULATION So Gw2 will kill off GW1 in time is my prediction to the point where the servers for GW1 are kept to a minimum, 99% of the people will dump their GW1 toons in fav for new and exciting game play. That 1% will go back to GW1 and get the Achievements that will give them the Unique Rewards if these rewards MERIT the COST of doing so. Coments? I think that a poster above hit the nail on the head. GW2 gold for GW1 ITEM!!! this way a destroyer sword CAN BE BOUGHT and brought to GW2 Via GW1. This is BRILLIANT SPECULATION!!! This activity can already be found in the Presearing economy. People will pay twice the amount for an item in pre than in post. 50K in pre is 100K in post. or people want my destroyer in pre and are willing to pay me twice what it is worth in POST gold to get it in pre. THIS situation makes Weapons and Decicatable things in the HALL OF MONUMENTS not worth dust but have a SPECULATED value since now they CAN be traded in GW2 Via GW1 hall of Monuments. Brilliant deduction |
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Originally Posted by Shling Shling
those little pixels of pink and your gold isnt worth anything in real life so why worry about the economy of a game :S
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