Adunh Slavy
Ammatar Trade Syndicate
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Posted - 2011.07.08 20:05:00 -
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 Originally by: CCP Zinfandel
It takes a lot more work to be able to make a system where the players can make the goods. We will do it. We want that very much. But it's going to take time. All of these goods are going to be a lot more fun if they are being made by players.
That'll be interesting to see come about. It will be useless however if the method that these items are sold is Au. As it is right now, a player designer that could get something on the Nex could only receive Au, which is not at all liquid. Designers will be forced to purchase from the Nex, to buy their own designs and then sell them for ISK. That would be an undesirable hoop. If it is not on the Nex and on a sort of ISK based exchange, that will help, or if Au can be placed on the market directly, that will also help.
Also consider, if designs can be seen and purchased anywhere, this will push all prices downwards. Volumes may increase but prices will go down, reducing the incentive for player designers to create. IMO, it would be better if designers had to stick to a store front at one location and/or sell on regional markets for ISK. It will impact visibility, but will also constrain supply to some degree, likely enough to overcome initial depreciation and the power of global accessibility and visibility, but not over the long term. Another rather un-Eve like solution is to make player designed and sold items be something that can not be resold. I don't like that, but I think it illustrates the point.
This from the blog, "As with the rest of EVE the market is based on supply and demand and selling clothes may become a lucrative way of making some additional ISK." This will be true only in the case of limited edition items or other methods of constraints on supply, as expressed above. Everything else will suffer from market saturation and the fact that they will be tied directly to the ISK value of PLEX. Clothing will not be a very liquid asset. Why pick up a less liquid asset who's value is tied so directly to a more liquid asset. |