2011-10-28, 10:22 AM
Fimbulvetr Wrote:You'd need to put in an absurd amount of time to compete with truly strong players who either hack or buy lots of NX/mesos. The economy is so screwed up, especially because of the duping and a normal merchant is hard pressed to keep up. For example, when I last played, duping essentially made the the cost of a mushy shop from 400 mil->800 mil for 2 weeks. The reason I mention the mushy is because you basically require one to merch effectively. So basically you need to make 800 mil profit in 2 weeks, which is at probably 2 bil in sales in 2 weeks.
Now a good merchant can overcome this limitation without too much trouble, but the average player will probably not. However, even a good merchant will have to be very careful in such a bad economy, cause anything you invest in can be duped to hell, making you lose huge amounts money (ex GM scrolls). Personally I went from 15 to 60 bil from mid July->early September, which I thought was pretty decent. However, a legit merchant cannot compete against hackers controlling the market,duping pomegranate, as well as people who just buy mesos/NX at all.
and once again... the problem comes back to hackers...
My problem with Nexon (God how many times have I said this????) is, and always shall be, hackers. It's a good point I didn't even mention about hackers ruining the economy via duping making it impossible to merchant properly to play the game without buying NX.
All of this buying NX for cubes, n godly equips, n whatever doesn't even mean anything when people also run around with $40 worth of friggin NX clothes and pets. I mean come the hell on... if you're going to complain about spending money on godly equips, then don't NX yourself out to make yourself super shiny. It's Nexon's fault for allowing hackers to ruin the economy, but it's a person's fault for spending NX at all. If people weren't handing Nexon money left and right, maybe they would sit back and go "hmmm, maybe we should try to beef up our security a bit?".