Its not destroying, but keeping it healthy. Constant growth isnt good, nor are rising prices. And they do this every year. Prices will go up again after l the event, setting a new average price on everything.

This is mostly meant to avoid prices becomming to high for casual and new players, to keep all items avaible to everyone.

This happens every year and will normalize quickly again....these events from time to time are good, not every one plays the game 24/7

Nemesis7884 wrote: »

This happens every year and will normalize quickly again....these events from time to time are good, not every one plays the game 24/7

What he said.

graelis wrote: »

The impact of the anniversary gifts has been massive. i see some prices drop by 99% and have no confidence in other costs in the auctions. i could have understood a day of this but the volume of formerly scarce items is trashing the market. Is there a good reason to do this?

Point been? ESO is not EVE to have a player driven economy that greatly impacts the game.
Such events are healthy for casual people like myself get whole full 14page motif for their collection, without having spent 1 year gathering the money for 1 full motif.

there needs to be a catch-up mechanic for motifs, yes.

don't worry there will be a new get-filthy-rich set of chapters coming along soon!

Since only weeks 1 and 5 are Crafting, 3 of these weeks are going to see a huge drop in Box Rate. I am going to go from 100 to 140 boxes a day to maybe 5 to 10. So, the Motif drop rate is not going to be as high as you think

One thing to consider is that dropping prices might be balanced out by people who don't normally buy motifs taking advantage of the low prices - so where you might have sold 1 motif for 40k now you could sell 4 for 10k. I can't speak for anyone else of course but I've already bought a few which would normally be on my "maybe one day if I don't have anything else to do with the gold" list, and I'm planning to get more later on when the prices will hopefully drop even more.

But also I'm surprised that anyone expects prices in a virtual economy (or any economy) to stay constant or to only increase, or thinks that would actually be a good thing. I thought all MMOs since the early days of Ultima Online had been making an effort to avoid that because the end result is everyone except the power sellers gets locked out of the economy and then the whole thing crashes because there's only so many times you can sell the same items to the same people who are all hoping to sell it on for a greater profit.

Huyen wrote: »

Its not destroying, but keeping it healthy.

This! The anniversary event is, to ESO's economy, the same as a controlled burn is to a forest.

I am getting 10K per motif, 2k per furniture recipe, and 1k per prophet style piece. I have already made 2 million gold in week 1. Prior to this event, you'd be lucky to sell some of these motifs for 10K. The market is strong.

graelis wrote: »

The impact of the anniversary gifts has been massive. i see some prices drop by 99% and have no confidence in other costs in the auctions. i could have understood a day of this but the volume of formerly scarce items is trashing the market. Is there a good reason to do this?

Prices dropped by 99%??

Sorry but I'm going to call BS on that statement.

Stuff like economy in a game bores me. But my gold is going into traders because prices are lower.

Good or bad? I dunno. But people are getting my gold now rather than not at all.

So what.
Everybody gets free or cheap motifs. You can earn money doing other things until the prices rise again. It's a fake economy with fake money inside a game. Some of us like the opportunity to get some rare motifs for a little cheaper.

George Soros is heavily shorting Welkynar and Pyandonean while silently directing his pawns at ZOS, so he can make a killing like he did when he broke the British pound in 1992. You heard it here first.

There’s so many motifs in the game now - I feel sorry for anyone who’s looking to max a crafter. The gold and/or grind involved is pretty nuts. And a growing number of motifs are locked behind content that a lot can’t grind even if they wanted to.

I think it’s great that ZOS has this event to help knock down prices - it gives people some chance.

The game economy will be fine - there has always been stuff players will pay for and most likely there always will be. It’s just that what that is exactly will change over time. No problems.