Where are all the whales period? While there are people who spend tons of money in this game, most people don’t the vast majority of the playerbase doesn’t spend a dime and more of those who do will spend it on a token. a pet/costume and maybe a skill reset or two. Don’t overstate how many people in any F2p game actually spend all that much money. The people who buy Trans, RMT, Gems are a small portion of this community.
Most people otherwise spend their money on Trans. You know why? Trans has a bigger impact than gems overall.
Like it has been understood and measured. Hell gems only got better after their revamp because they used to be even worse compared to trans.
Shard prices are going down because the demand from the playerbase as a whole isn’t going up as much as the supply. People are doing their Saalus runs and saying fuk it. They get shards from the cube and say fuk it.
Trans is a botched system that only works for a small few. Gems really aren’t much different.
You can buy all of these abrasives if you want, poor 200 dollars at the slot machine if you so please. If your weapon isn’t stage 10 your priorities are in the wrong place. If your armor isn’t stage 10, well you goofed again.
Are there people with high level gems? Yes, I had only seen one prior. Do I think it was worth getting? Nope because not all his gear was trans’d up and it’s a better use of his money.
Even still it’s all a tangent. The game fundamentally allows you to trade cash for silver via the marketplace. At the same time because of this you’re not limited from things as a F2P player because Paying players provide the supply of cash shop items. The quantitative value of any one of these cash items individually doesn’t change how it functions as a whole. Tired of a discussion that amounts to crying about spilling more milk in an already existing milk puddle.