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mollerz
s1ck3r Corp
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Posted - 2013.05.05 17:04:00 -
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here's the thing-
Let's say you bought a sevr logistics BPO for 4800. Now CCP gives you 19800 for it. a profit of 15K rite!?
nice.. but if you want to buy a sevr to replace the refunded one.. it's 19800. so you actually made zero.
no biggie right? You'll just use it to buy other things.. but oops! All the prices increased with the sevr logo suit... so really, the 19m isk you now have is actually worth the same as you initially had when comparing AUR buying power before and post uprising.
Inflation is going to kill your dreams of becoming rich off an AUR refund.
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mollerz
s1ck3r Corp
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Posted - 2013.05.05 17:20:00 -
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Flamesea wrote:mollerz wrote:here's the thing-
Let's say you bought a sevr logistics BPO for 4800. Now CCP gives you 19800 for it. a profit of 15K rite!?
nice.. but if you want to buy a sevr to replace the refunded one.. it's 19800. so you actually made zero.
no biggie right? You'll just use it to buy other things.. but oops! All the prices increased with the sevr logo suit... so really, the 19m isk you now have is actually worth the same as you initially had when comparing AUR buying power before and post uprising.
Inflation is going to kill your dreams of becoming rich off an AUR refund.
Lets say you bought 50 sevr logistics BPO for 4800.. and then after refund you need only to buy one. Still no profit?
Exactly. still no profit. |
mollerz
s1ck3r Corp
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Posted - 2013.05.05 17:40:00 -
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Bendtner92 wrote:mollerz wrote:Flamesea wrote:mollerz wrote:here's the thing-
Let's say you bought a sevr logistics BPO for 4800. Now CCP gives you 19800 for it. a profit of 15K rite!?
nice.. but if you want to buy a sevr to replace the refunded one.. it's 19800. so you actually made zero.
no biggie right? You'll just use it to buy other things.. but oops! All the prices increased with the sevr logo suit... so really, the 19m isk you now have is actually worth the same as you initially had when comparing AUR buying power before and post uprising.
Inflation is going to kill your dreams of becoming rich off an AUR refund.
Lets say you bought 50 sevr logistics BPO for 4800.. and then after refund you need only to buy one. Still no profit? Exactly. still no profit. It's a profit if they don't buy the same amount of BPOs again. Other AUR items didn't get a similar price increase, so they'll be able to buy more of those items than when they bought the BPOs.
Are you sure other AUR items didn't get an increase? That wouldn't make much sense for CCP when they constantly state their concern about their in game economy. They increased the AUR cost for everything else when they went open beta. EDIT: They have increased the prices on all BPOs from closed beta to open beta. so that is a moot point.
If you bought 100 AUR and you get refunded 1000 AUR, but your buying power remains the same- you made no profit. a bigger number doesn't always mean a profit :) This is why inflation is so feared in the real economy.
Basically all he did was spend a lot of real world money on lots of potential AUR that could buy the same amount of stuff before open beta as in uprising. Just using bigger numbers for prices.
Yea, he only needs one BPO, but so what? he'll spend the rest, right? And get the same amount of stuff as if he had just bought the equivalent amount of AUR from the start. So he'll have 19m AUR. It;s the same as if I just went out and bought 19m AUR right now.
I predict the next massive wave of QQ after this sinks in.
The caveat to this, is if CCP can't avoid an imbalance somewhere in their pricing that they can't avoid leaving a inefficiency people can exploit for actual profit ;) Also, it depends how the market opens up between eve/dust where you can sell BPOs for ISK.
But again- you can make this much isk in eve in like 5 minutes.
TL;DR- real world cash is better than some game pile of fake cash. I'd rather have USD than ISK! |
mollerz
s1ck3r Corp
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Posted - 2013.05.05 17:54:00 -
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Bendtner92 wrote:mollerz wrote:Are you sure other AUR items didn't get an increase? That wouldn't make much sense for CCP when they constantly state their concern about their in game economy. They increased the AUR cost for everything else when they went open beta. All non BPO items did not get a similar price increase. Therefore people can buy more of all those items than they could when they bought their BPOs.
And who is to say they will not increase the prices at the time of the refund for non BPOs? It would fall in line with maintaining the stability of their game market and be completely fair for them to do it.
Let me guess- Que the QQ, right? |
mollerz
s1ck3r Corp
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Posted - 2013.05.05 18:49:00 -
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lolz. that is not profit.
That's in store credit ;)
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