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[Discussion] TP as a currency

General Discussion
#1

Greetings,

As we all know that Silver is the main currency in game while TP is mostly used for Cash Shop. This sorta hit me but what do you think about making TP as a currency too alongside Silver? Which can be used mainly in selling or buying items in Auction House. I know it may sounds stupid but hear me out.

In an MMO i’ve played before used the same system. Cash is a premium currency that can be obtained without having to buy a steam wallet, game card etc. as it can be obtained in game through Auction,. This helps non cash players to get cash and having the same luxury as the others.

This too may, I think, may reduce gold sellers. I mean they are selling gold to the players so players could buy items that they want right? So using Cash as a currency, players don’t really have too go through gold sellers to get gold, they would just have to top up their cash and buy them items they want through Auction, set in TP. Get it? In the MMO I’ve played before, at first there was a lot of gold sellers spamming their crap but they died out, either from the system…or maybe they’re bored with the game.

However, it’s not always rainbow and sunshine. The cons from having such system may destroy the market if abused. For example, all market items could be 80% to 90% set in TP and absurd TP price for an item. This probably can be countered with, while selling an item in Auction, Silver is a must and TP is optional. Basically, it’ll work both ways, those who have silver can buy it and those who have TP may also get it (depends if the seller sets in TP too). Or anything better than this.

I’m not gonna lie, there may be a plummet in IMC profits cause hey, they still gotta make money out from the game to keep it going. So yeah, either way, from the MMO i’ve played before, it stayed for a good 3 years before shutting down, mostly due to the company f*cked up their game, not from financial.

Pardon for the wall of text. I hope I’ve made it clear. If there’s any question that you don’t understand regarding to this post, do let me know. I’ll try to fill ya in.

#2

Couldnt the silver sellers get a bunch of TP this way too? It could just give them another thing to sell to people. They could start selling it for less than IMC does…

#3

RMT has always been known to sell currency, in game gears, power leveling services and cash tokens. No idea where or how they get cheaper deals than the game company but… bad idea.

#4

I kinda like the system as it does help non-TP players get their part of the bargain, plus maximizing TP usefulness rather than just using them for cosmetics/cash shop. This, of course, lead to more problems as you have said. It’s not totally non-flawed system, as you can see why IMC barred a lot of basic needs, to my dislike that is, even with the recent changes.

RMT’s has been in any MMO for many years now and stopping them is near impossible as there are plenty of ways to sell what they have. In fact RMT’s could be anyone, for example a normie have 1m silver from farming but he feels like selling it in real money, and so on. It depends on the person really.

IMC could however stop the bots to say the least as it would decrease the gold sellers by a chunk. Either they need to have a great anti-botting system, or maybe just wait over time and let the RMT’s died out (would not work). Or just do the things they do now.

#5

IMC just has to offer silver officially and directly but last time I mentioned that I got destroyed here.
Never adept and let us be annoyed by Gold Sellers, Botters and Spammers is the far better solution anyways.

#6

The closest thing you will get is tokens to sell for silver. This is much better than just buying silver because it helps everyone. Devs get money, you get silver, a F2P player gets a token. Also how much you get for the token is based on in game economy which is good.

#7

You can’t stop them… Not even john connor could

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#8

True on that.

However, not all things can be accessed with silver, such as the cosmetics/premium items from cash shop. This could help free users or even players who don’t wanted to spend too much on the game get what they want, with effort of course. Well unless they can be sell in silver too in which I don’t know, then all is good.

Some players who even have lotsa TP’s but not so much Silver couldn’t get any goodies from the AH. The prices are overwhelming but depending on their grade and rarity, I can understand why. This’ll probably gonna reduced once F2P is up…probably.

But like I said, this could backfire the company as there would be plummet in sales, or even the market gets destroyed with only TP’s. Could go either ways but meh, I just want everyone perspective on this.

@Sciguma The idea is good but the side effect is kinda bad to be honest. There won’t be any effort to say the least in getting silver, or maybe even the market price would skyrocketed since everyone could just bought silvers in a big quantity. But still, I applaud you giving a suggestion to counter the RMT’s. Hopefully there’s more comes from you.

#9

Well, the token thing I said was to the guy above me.

About your suggestion, I think the gold sellers would just sell a bunch of their items for TP and sell it off at a lower price than IMC is selling it for.

#10

It is not like everyone will start buying silver if it is possible.
Everyone who wants to buy silver does already as it is pretty easy that means prices will at most rise a bit. Gold Sellers are not the root of the problem but the customers. The moment they lose their customers the Gold Sellers will go extinct.
At the moment, if you want quick silver you have no option but Gold Sellers.
‘But you can sell Tokens!’ Bullshit. You can’t as this takes ages. And also you are capped for a certain amount if you do it this way.
Market restrictions can be lifted then as people will always prefer the official and safe method. Token price will raise a lot making the lifes of F2P players harder. Which is fine imho.

#11

What comes first the chicken or the egg? Lol
If there were no gold sellers there would be no gold buyers… they would be token buyers instead which helps the game.

Your saying the players are the problem and not the RMT sellers flooding the game with bots? They have an option in buying tokens. The silver sellers is just trying to get in on the action where they don’t belong. IF players had no option I would see where you are coming from .

About the tokens, that’s only right now. There isn’t much need for tokens right now since everyone got founder packs. Once f2p opens it will be much different. It will have higher demand and prices will go up.

#12

Probably the worst idea that can come to mind. I remember in MapleStory, the last MMO I actually enjoyed, had MTS (where you can buy items with currency you bought with cash) everything went to hell. Everything lost value and it became pay to win. I’m sure you won’t mind a pay to win game if you have access to the cash, but a lot of people don’t.

A lot of MMOs die out because it becomes too reliant on spending money to get anywhere. MapleStory is still only alive today because they removed the MTS and added a server where you mainly only pay for cosmetics. Nothing else. It should stay that way.