Edit: Before anyone jumps down my throat, I waited until I saw MANY comments about this event and this thread was seven pages long before sharing my thoughts.
1 month ago...
Ade: "Hey guys. We should have some good drops and maybe let our hair down a bit because the game has already been around for a long time."
Vocal minority who suddenly became experts on economics: "Shut up Ade ur dumb."
*Event happens. People are unhappy with the boosts and the rarity of good presents*
Also, having Fiasco available but without the boosts being lucrative isn't enough of a draw,
@Ender . You always have an answer to tie up all loose ends, but the proof is in the reception. And the "people are going to whine no matter what" bit is disingenuous and you know it. Sure, there's always SOME whining, but it's way worse this year than any other year. Don't play dumb.
Most good items find a home. People come and go from the server all the time. If a player goes "inactive," then none of those items are in circulation. The economy on this game has never been wrecked. Fluctuation is normal. Economies are efficient and quickly adapt to the objective value of goods. If something in the game changes drastically but temporarily, the economy will change drastically but TEMPORARILY. This doesn't mean it's wrecked. This doesn't mean we should attempt to manipulate the market by destroying our personal fortunes (which is a useless gesture). It means that we continue to play the game and participate in the economy as efficiently and competitively as possible.
Without events that give significant boosts from time to time, we're going to soon enter an era of "nobody ever finds what they want," and I feel like some people on this server WANT THAT. It feels weird to say that, but I really do feel like there are people on this server who think that PSO is supposed to be an unrewarding experience that NEVER, not rarely, but NEVER gives you what you want. It's like they say to themselves, "Are people happy and finding what they want? Then dammit the game is too easy and we need to change that."
This is why Cannon Rouge with 50 hit (a relatively niche weapon that rarely needs that much hit) is going for 475 PDs. When something high end finally does drop, it will sell for absurd prices since those satisfying drops are becoming so few and far between.
Here's an idea: Let's get back to letting people find what they want and create some new PDs sinks.
For example: Want to increase your inventory capacity from 30 to 35 for ONE character? Okay...that will be 5 Photon Hoards.
Want to increase from 35 to 40? Okay, that will be 10 Photon Hoards.
(This is just an example.)
We're going to run out of solutions if we never expand our tool belt.
I don't even know why I try. I guess I get too accustomed to people actually listening to me IRL (I'm a financial advisor), so it's so weird to run into such unreasonable pushback here.
I know people think I'm a jerk or I'm too controversial or whatever, but this server is the best PSO experience in the history of the game. I want to do anything I can to help it stay around for as long as possible. I hope others feel that way too.
I get really upset when people who rarely play the game, or maybe just show up for a little while and then leave (ie.
@Zues in my most recent thread), come crashing into these threads and are argumentative for the sake of just stirring things up. It's because of people like this that we never got post Lv. 200 progression and many other great things. They're gone now, but they got their way before they left. They come in here and act like they care about this server but just want to shit all over any ideas they didn't come up with themselves, even if it means hurting the game for people who want to stay for the long haul. They can get bent.
Happy New Year...
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