Edit - My second post: Policy Update Regarding RMT
Right. From experience in multiple (at this point, its going on over 20 years, f you youngins) online games.
@STAFF_Yuri
People will want to ‘buy’ silver, regardless. Whether its through IMC (tokens, cubes) or through 3rd party ‘RMT’. It is better to encourage those with real life money, and TONS of it, to spend it with IMC.
Announcing IMC’s official stance is a good thing, BUT, IMC has to solve (or, crack down hard enough on the RMT’ers so that their prices go up high enough) the following:
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It is cheaper to buy from the RMT sites and buy a token, than to buy TP for a token. MUCH cheaper. From RMT spam on telsiai - 10m silver for SG$3.3 to 3.5, while a token equivalent goes for SG$6.5 (SG$65 for a 990 TP pack, 10 tokens). That is half the price of ‘legal’ rates (one of the reasons I actually support higher silver prices for tokens).
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Don’t stack free rewards (Raid cube rewards) with TP/Cash rewards (Leticia/Goddess). The best example is Velcoffer Cubes. https://treeofsavior.com/page/news/view.php?n=1391 The most recent Leticia cubes drop Raid Portal Stones (1x) in the tier B category. Velcoffer cubes drop 20+. You’re shooting yourself in the foot by lowering the prices of the raid portal stones and lowering the value of Leticia cubes (Why buy Leticia cubes when you get less value for money?). Leticia & Blessed cube drops should never be duplicated by ‘free’ cube drops.
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Don’t duplicate TP store items and Cube items. Penguin / Battlebird = 298 TP. Why was there a need to put Shining Penguin / Battlebird eggs in the cubes? The TP store penguin/battlebird should have been replaced with Shining eggs, to allow another method of converting TP > Silver.
Simply put, encourage those with money to spend through IMC instead of 3rd party sellers for the best results. Referring to EVE-Online as an example - PLEX (Their version of TP) can be directly traded for ISK (silver), and also used to exchange for cosmetics, character redesign vouchers, etc.
Implementing enforcement without improving IMC’s own products (Leticia, Goddess, TP store) isn’t very efficient.
Edit: I had to post the above first, since the thread is moving too fast.
@STAFF_Yuri Please tell the devs to consider something like https://www.pathofexile.com/shop Path of Exile’s cosmetics. They have just added a pair of wings that cost US$ 64. AND PEOPLE BUY THEM.
I want premium CASH ONLY (TP ONLY) cosmetics. 1000 TP each? Sure, why not? Make sure they’re nice, have effects, look blingy as f, my wallet is open.