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I think the main argument is that most players shouldn't have gotten that big of a slice of cake to begin with. I was one of those people who got an absolutely gobsmacking sack of gold and got costumes from broker during the initial buy-panic, but I still think they should seriously consider a roll back.
To which i said already im well aware of it, and should be fixed. But i keep hearing a lot of people simply complaining about the reset scrolls being part of the economy disaster, mainly those who missed out on the selling of said scrolls.
But the SES issue should be addressed, i do not disagree with anyone on that, but i still hold my ground, that a rollback should be threaded carefully.
Well, in fairness, if you did a rollback all the items they bought would be back in the state they were before, and they would have a chance to earn/buy them on a more equal playing field like everyone else. Yeah it'd suck to win the lottery and then wake up again like Groundhog Day, but it doesn't mean the disproportionate winnings were fair to start with.
I think this is a bit more nuanced than "the people who missed out are mad at the people who won big." It's a lot more about fairness and longevity. Consider the impact over-generous events back in the day had on the in-game economy, and now multiple that by tens/hundreds. The amount of time it will take for the impact to be worked through the game is huge, and the people who will suffer most are new players.
It's not really possible to just rollback the semi-exploit on its own either, so it's all or nothing. It's not easy to cleanup the semi-exploit mess in isolation due to the ripple effects on the economy.
Obviously I do agree that it's a serious issue that needs serious consideration, and not something you do lightly/flippantly. People will be mad in either case. But in the end, I personally would tend to favor fairness and balance:
1) Elite Consumable Boxes should be locked into the state they were when purchased/earned, and their contents should not change (have their value lessened) retroactively.
2) Scroll sale prices should be balanced to re-consider the total quantity in the economy taking into consideration Elite Consumable Box supplies
3) Obviously, the semi exploit should never have happened.
In my view this would be the more fair and equitable approach for the game on the whole. To accomplish that would require a reset, and all the according consequences that would cause. But, in my opinion, it would be the right thing to do.
TBH??? say that the gold talent price stays like that:
With such an inflated price, new players could just sell their spare gold talents, and make a decent amount of gold, more than enough to carry them through the gearing. The smart player will see this as an opportunity, and will take it.
I understand the problems, but thinking from the point of view of a new player, this would be what i would do, just sell my spare materials, for a good chunk of gold, and keep farming without having to every worry about the gold price for enchanting.
So long as they make the effort to inform the community of progress and apologise for the massive amount of chaos this has caused, rather than a shrug of the shoulders and making their first response to the outrage "it's not our fault". Surely the angry masses would rather hear some kind of apology for the mess and comforting indication of complaints being acknowledged and passed on BEFORE the knee-[filtered] "we didn't do it".
The real problem will present itself if material prices do drop back down to normal, at least in my opinion. That's why I'm in favor of a roll back myself. Because I do think that the talyph sink will combat the inflation as more people reach for 70, since it's like 4mil per character. That gap in progression would be pretty disheartening to new folk.
But if gold inflation stays the same, people will start complaining about vg gold rewards again. This cycle never seems to end. I won't pretend that I know the best solution or all of the angles to this delicate issue.
I do tend to think the SES incident is more important though. People have said they can fix it without having a roll back. Dunno how true that is.
In fairness, that was in direct response to a question of whether BHS had set/reviewed the price on Discord. It was not a general/official response to the situation on behalf of all EME. I do think they should have a general response, particularly once they decide what to do with the current situation.
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Definitely need that rollback. Can't adequately reverse the effect of this. There's indirect effects and a lot of trades involved.
As for saying some people are salty because they missed out, not true... I made 8 millions myself from the scrolls I had, and I already have 30 million in my bank.
Not only the economy is [filtered] up.
You literally shat on every persons face that bought EMP. In what right does someone just earns 10-20 million for doing literally nothing ?
Gold is much worse than duping items. Duping items that has no value in itself has no bearing on the economy as a whole.
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> Definitely need that rollback. Can't adequately reverse the effect of this. There's indirect effects and a lot of trades involved.
This is a substantial exploit.
The other thing is who even needs to sell emp for gold now LOL
Hard to keep a free to play game alive when people don't have the need to buy
Instead, they had their personnel manually go through data (it helped that they had two data people employed at the time who could pull that information into reports that their assembled teams could go through). EME could do something similar (since they have a fairly short/specific time frame of data they would need to go through). I realize they are personnel strapped BUT something important like this, they should do what is right.
Outstanding comment.
Sort of accurate as well.