2011-10-07, 09:26 PM
Stereo Wrote:Botters cause inflation that hurts players. You know what's no longer profitable for a legit player? Hunting Pieces of Time. It used to be you could get 10mil each - that's 50-60mil profit per hour if you were lucky. And NX rates were much lower, so it translated into 3-4k NX. Now, you get 1mil per PoT you find and you need to find 160 of them to get the same amount of NX 6 used to get you. 3-4k per hour isn't minimum wage but it's a lot better than 100 nx per hour.
Not to mention the botters turn around and sell that 200-300mil they got from merching PoTs, introducing it straight back into the economy in the hands of people who don't care how much they pay for items, because they can just spend $10 and get another billion - bam, the equips you actually want, the ones that don't drop, can't be hunted by botters, inflate massively. That is the stuff that replaces Reverse gear, and with a price gap from 80m to 8 billion, the regular non-merching non-meso-buying players lose bigtime.
Botters destroy ingame sources of money - anything that takes a player time to obtain, a botter can obtain more quickly. You want to make real profit hunting mobs? Good luck competing on prices with the guy who runs 19 bots in every Oblivion map.
Yeah i do know selling PoTs now is like no profit. I used to do that. For the longest time though i agree with you and saying that this was true. How non-merching non-meso-buying players cant compete. But now i find this false. Professions is a Good (and probably only) way to make good mesos that doesn't have any to little competition. Botter's cant bot them. And even your poor players can be able to use as much mesos they want on an item because u only need a minimum of have enough potions for ur next round of w/e you do.
I'll excude myself from the poor people (cuz i actual feel like im rich now) even though in 4 years of playing (or however long mardia came out) i have never once gotten over 550mil mesos (cant say the same true for nx as i can buy it BUT i dont sell NX for mesos an NX has a far greater value in my eyes.) Yet i have survived quite nicely. (and never bought NX till cubes came out either.)
But when you say "Hurt players" which players are they mostly hurting. As I see it they only "Hurt" the richer community while the poorer one benefits more than the damage they do.