The Market *CRASHED!*.. What Does This Mean?.. (Lost Ark Market & Exchange Gold Price Discussion)



The Market *CRASHED!*.. What Does This Mean?.. (Lost Ark Market & Exchange Gold Price Discussion)
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44 thoughts on “The Market *CRASHED!*.. What Does This Mean?.. (Lost Ark Market & Exchange Gold Price Discussion)”

  1. I actually am surprised by the market change. I mean, it makes sense due to the fact whales are pretty much done whaling, but that RMT hasn't managed to keep it about the same, if not even higher, is very interesting. Maybe Amazon is actually actively banning (most) bots. I'm kinda sad I didn't buy some gold from the market when it was 800+. I totally view the time saved leveling to be worth a few dollars in gold lol. I get it's potentially a good thing that gold is greater in value (i.e. less gold = more value), but it does make me a little sad in terms of how the market board prices are still stupid high and that it's now more expensive with real world money to pay for the knowledge boosts.

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  2. I think a major point you've missed that's led to the price drop in the last few days is the 5x aura of resonance potion from the login reward. This essentially more than tripled the supply of honing mats into the market.

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  3. is it me or does it feel super hard to make gold as F2P now since everything is tanking? I kinda feel like I gotta toss $100 or so to get a decent amount of gold again to work with.

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  4. How do get all your alts to T2? you cant knowledge transfer every alt since there are requirements. Do you do story mode again on all those alts?

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  5. I'm quitting Lost Ark cause it's very obvious the game has major flaws, bot issues and P2W aspects that should not be in a well-designed game. Players said no thank you to Diablo3 when it was balanced around real-money auction house. It's time to do the same again.

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  6. dude dont be so afraid to talk about what really is affecting the market you jump into the new stuff were getting before talkinga bout it. its the whales and bots were controlling market prices becasue they wanted high prices to make high profitrs after spending lots of money to get to t3 quickly. stop being so afraid to say it

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  7. Games kinda dying. That is why the crash happened. A lot of mid tier players are jumping ship. I will explain how my friends feel and why they stopped playing.

    The P2W whales and RMT players are so far ahead that they have no hope of catching up.
    People that got lucky or did the above behavior now have a massive gold advantage and by extension access to blue crystals. Someone that does not have multiple alts in T3 will be able to access them. The price of everything in the low tier has crashed.

    SO basically the game was too P2W. They basically said, I may not need to drive a Ferrari, but I don't go to Ferrari owner meetups to remind myself I don't have one.

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  8. Your takes on a few of these things are wrong.

    The majority of the playerbase didn't decide anytime recently that they wouldn't pay high prices for T3 mats, they've mostly been holding waiting for hope that the streamers they listened to that said honing rate increases were coming immediately would be correct and they weren't. Whales and big pushers already have finished Argos P3 and have no reason to buy anymore. These people were the principle reason for high prices as they were the majority of the buying pressure. With all that buying pressure gone, prices inevitably fall like a knife until they find a level that more people are willing to buy at than are willing to sell at; buying overtakes selling and the price starts going up again.

    The second things you got wrong is the bot problem. Bots don't cause inflation; that's just content release waves. Bots ALWAYS cause deflation. Bots operate on the principle of superior efficiency and always aim to outnumber and outfarm players massively. This massive influx of mats and items always results in massive price decreases that happen rapidly. No natural phenomenon is the majority cause for what we're seeing in the LOA markets right now.

    The one part you did get right about bots is that bans happen in waves. What you got wrong immediately after that, however, is that prices are going down because bots are gone. Nope. Bots are coming back stronger than ever and its why prices are going down sharply again when they were stable just a few days ago. Stable prices are what happens when bots have just disappeared in a wave. Price crashes are what happen when they have shored up their numbers again and have nearly full operational capacity. We are clearly at a point where the bots have re-created their army; not freshly at a low off a ban wave.

    Its a fact that the bots are re-appearing much faster than ban waves occur.

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  9. In the other regions, has the Crystalline Aura gone up in price over time or has it remained the same? For example, 30 days of Crystalline Aura is 420 Blue Crystals in NA/EU. Is it anticipated to remain at 420 Blue Crystals forever?

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  10. Glad I just bought 12k blue crystals over the past week or so. It was a great investment they said, maybe in 6 months I can get my gold back, thanks for the advice "experts". Bots and whales have just about killed this game for me.

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