Kiralyn2000 wrote: »And who is it that decides what the "proper" price for motifs is, and that motif selling is the primary measure of "economic balance"? (hey, maybe motif prices are too high, and this event helps bring things back into balance!)
Personally, I love this event - it gets motifs into the hands of all the players who aren't a 'big deal' in the economy, and were never going to buy those expensive motifs in the first place.
...and don't worry, I'm not helping to deflate your motif prices. I don't sell anything, so any motifs I don't use either just sit in my bank for my next crafting alt or get deleted.
Lord_Dexter wrote: »I do not care about motif selling or their prices but its like ESO economy suffers due to these events.
New players doing daily writs (easiest way to farm motifs currently) and getting good motifs drops easily without doing much efforts seems not a good gesture.
Motifs are probably one of the biggest gold makers in the game.
ZoS nerfing the ability to make tons of gold, because it will curb inflation and spread the wealth somewhat.
They also prefer you to buy that 3.8M house with ~10K crowns instead of gold.
You can still make gold but for most players that can't or don't want to turn the game into a second job farming gold, it takes so much longer. The hope (by ZoS) is for you to buy crowns instead.
Oreyn_Bearclaw wrote: »Same thing happened last year. First, most players arent getting 20-30 a day. My data is certainly not controlling, but I am average a motif at a rate of about 1/4 boxes. I dont think "most" people are doing 100 dailys each day, but certainly some are. Second, the vast majority of these motifs are the common Morrowind motifs (telvanni redoran or hlaalu), and they werent that expensive to begin with.
I will do what I did last year. Use it as an opportunity in the next week or two to make sure I have every motif in the game when they are cheap, and sit on any of the more rare motifs I found for 2-3 months when the prices will return to their new normal.
DeadlyRecluse wrote: »"ESO Economy Balance" is not a static thing to be maintained. That's now how markets work.
Oreyn_Bearclaw wrote: »Same thing happened last year. First, most players arent getting 20-30 a day. My data is certainly not controlling, but I am average a motif at a rate of about 1/4 boxes. I dont think "most" people are doing 100 dailys each day, but certainly some are. Second, the vast majority of these motifs are the common Morrowind motifs (telvanni redoran or hlaalu), and they werent that expensive to begin with.
QuebraRegra wrote: »20 or 30 pages a day!?!?!? um, I'm not seeing those drop rates...
Worth of an item is always based on how long does it take to aquire. In eso, u have a basevalue of 20k/hour netgain for crafting green food to sell to npc. Thus anything that takes less than an hour to aquire is not worth 20k gold. Farming and selling stuff for less than 20k that took longer than an hour to get is a bad idea likewise.
Dapper Dinosaur wrote: »
This formula falls flat when you consider that any remotely competent group can speedrun Cradle Hardmode in less than 30 minutes and walk away with 4 pages of a motif that sells for 40k+ per page.
Dapper Dinosaur wrote: »I do wish the dungeon pages didn't drop in these. While I'm all for getting another way to earn motifs that any pleb with hands can earn eventually through repetition of simple tasks, I don't think people that lack the skill to acquire the dungeon pages should have any other way to get them. The pages are supposed to be an incentive for players to better themselves so they can clear the harder content, and events like this ruin that.
Worm isn't on the crown store
Dapper Dinosaur wrote: »
This formula falls flat when you consider that any remotely competent group can speedrun Cradle Hardmode in less than 30 minutes and walk away with 4 pages of a motif that sells for 40k+ per page.
This market is beyond saving, the global AH would have a better balance than any trade system without one