Tanis Bastar
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Posted - 2006.11.09 19:15:00 -
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Edited by: Tanis Bastar on 09/11/2006 19:17:08
 Originally by: Brooke Prime
If the price of all tech 2 items dropped this game would lose a large portion of its player base as they become as bored and disinterested as I have at times. IF the playerbase falls, guess what, there is suddenly a glut of tech 2 items and prices fall to almost production costs as they did with tech 1.
Sorry, I don't agree with this statement at all. No one is talking about making T2 prices fall to T1 levels, just to something that is remotely achievable by the average player. And being forced to rely exclusively on T1 gear because T2 gear is continuously priced out of reach because of fixed, inadequate supply and ever-growing demand is much more likely to cause a large portion of the player base to become "bored and disinterested". It will also certainly lead to more ISK purchases via GTC, e-Bay, etc., as the unwashed masses resort to these methods as the only means to acquire the shiny T2 toys.
Originally by: Brook Prime
When/if tech 3 comes along then fair enough tech 2 becomes the baseline and BPOS should become available on the market. Until then trying to make tech 2 baseline is both absurd and dangerous.
Your argument is a straw man. No one in this thread is talking about making T2 the baseline--rather the emphasis seems to be on ensuring that supply be increased to correspond to the large increase in players since the BPOs were seeded, and to put in place some means to discourage anti-competitive behavior by the BPO holders. I think that failing to take effective action to create more supply of T2 items is a really bad idea, although I wouldn't go so far as to call it absurd or dangerous (it doesn't sound like invention will be a very effective means of doing this).
I don't really have anything against the T2 BPO holders: they made some shrewd decisions, put in some time, and were lucky enough to receive hugely disproportionate rewards. But I don't have much sympathy for them either--if you got a BPO in the lottery, you've already gotten whatever dues you're entitled to (actually far more)--if you bought it, you bought it subject to the risk that CCP would nerf T2 BPOs in some manner, and it is clearly time to do so.
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