ThorianB wrote: »

The current event will drop the prices on mats. All those writs a day on all those characters means a lot of surveys( i have gotten about 10 during the event and its only been a day). While the reward boxes only give a partial ROI you do get stacks of mats in every single anniversary box. And a lot of those boxes are generated from activities that don't consume mats.

I wish they would extend the event a week or two to compensate for all of the CP craziness going on with people trying to power level and burning through master writs.

zaria wrote: »

Blacknight841 wrote: »

If only you all had bots like on Xbox. Our wax is 3.5k!!! It’s actually not worth anyone’s time to farm materials because the bots do it for the whole community and Zos does nothing about it. Go to the alikr... bots, go to Rawlkha ... bots, starter zones... only bots. Even if you are trying to get through the tutorial as a new player, you can’t ... bots all over the wailing prison. If you are standing at any given wayshrine, and you tell your friend to come and find you at that wayshire without traveling to you ... chances are a group of bots will appear there before your friend. Wax is almost as low as when the pig farm existed. To put into perspective, 60% of the players that play eso on Xbox make it out of the wailing prison, but only half of those players actually make it to the harborage. That number is due there reduced to only 7% of the accounts created, not characters but accounts... actually make it to level 50.

You would thing things would get better over the course of 6 years, but in fact it is the worst it has ever been. As a new player you cannot even enjoy the game or find materials to farm because there is a bit sitting at it. Still, Zos does nothing about it.

Question, how can you run bots on an console? Yes you can probably jailbreak one, but then you need an bot software designed and updated to run on current ESO version on an Xbox.

This exist on pc where you have bot software with ESO "drivers" but on PC you just need the game, the software who work on many game and be willing to cheat and take the risk.
But does this marked exist on consoles as you need to jailbreak in the first place and I assume its harder to make the cheat software.

Larcomar wrote: »

It's called *inflation* It happens (unless you're japan). Deal with it. Mats don't cost more. Gold is just worth less. Because there's an awful lot of it sloshing around.

Sambucca1973 wrote: »

This is how economies work. Basic supply and demand.

I try to sell things for reasonable prices. But that may be influenced on my own need for money. But I also don’t undercut big items. If a motif usually sells for 85k gold, that’s what I’ll try to get for it.

There are also guilds. I’ll put things in the guild bank or on the guild store at a reduced prices. Yes, my in-game buddies get a break - usually. Those folks get the “discount” that isn’t seen in the public guild traders.

Then there’s the practice of investment (that’s what I call it). I’ll hold onto something, if its sale price drops too much. Eventually it will go back up. Everything is cyclical.

Is it fair? I don’t know. But the entire economy in ESO is its own mini-game. It has taken me four years of fairly regular play to get a bit of a grasp on it. But there are folks, I’m sure, who make me look like a skooma peddler in comparison,

Jem_Kindheart wrote: »

As many have noticed, upgrade and base materials prices have exploded. In most cases doubled, in Legendary level prices have tripled. In some outlier cases, it's gone 5x. This is all within a timeframe of a few months.

This is all well and good if Gold income or flow was also increasing at similar rates. It has not. For the flippers and exploiters, this is all great and amazing!

For the regular player all the way up through upper level veteran players, even us long timers, this is not good and has set a dangerous precedent. Even with decent weekly sales and income from occasional hours of dedicated farming, it has become unrealistic to upgrade gear.

As a matter of perspective, the prices themselves aren't the problem. The issue is the relative value versus the players' ability to earn that coin to buy it. In this case, the value hasn't gone up, nor has the player's ability to earn that value in gold, but the price has gone up.

Through poor planning or poor game design, as well as controlling the artificial drop rates, ZoS is both allowing and is an accomplice to a rapidly growing inequality. It's getting to where even the advanced player has to sell Crowns just to upgrade gear. If this is the new game design or intention, then ZoS should just go ahead and directly sell us Gold for Crowns or real money so we can eliminate the middleperson.

For several examples, here's some examples that I had been noticing and watching skyrocket.

• Dreugh Wax: an absolute game flaw making the gold mat for light and medium the same item.
  year ago: 6k, then 7k, then a few months ago 9k, then suddenly 10k, then when the patch dropped 12k, quickly up and up, 14k last week, this week 17k.
  So from 6k to 17k.
  
• Tempering Alloy: a year ago 3.5k, then 5k, then when U29 dropped had gone to 8k, last week breached 10k.
  So 3.5k to 10k+
  
• Rosin: watched it go from 2.5k to 5k-8k, so not so bad, but still noted.
  
• Alchemy ingredient prices: almost all have undergone a 50% to 100% price increase during that same time.
  
• One outlier case I noticed go insane, and I don't care nor am in the market of nor for, is Aetherial Dust. Obviously it would go up due to the raised cap. Yet it has gone way deep into questionable and greed territory. A year ago or more it was 230k-275k, it had been there for quite some time. I watched the zone sellers since Update 29 go immediately to 350k, then a few days later 400k, then last week 500k then 600k, and a few days ago 750k.
  
  That is just totally nuts and a terrible design that allows for something to go from 230k to 750k within weeks.
  

This is setting a dangerous precedent ZoS, I'm telling you as a friend for years, this is dangerous and will backfire. If you want only the elites to get richer and everyone else to have to sell Crowns just to make gear or make potions to do content, the just come out and say so. Make a way for us to just buy the Gold.

Or, if you really want to fix it, just increase the drop rates. A Dreugh Wax is not worth 17k if it was 6k last year. Just up the drop rates of the mats and Surveys, we don't mind working for it.

We don't mind working for it, but it has to be realistic. 1.2 Million gold to fully upgrade 1 set of armor for 1 character is not realistic for most players.