General Discussion - Crafting orbs or currency? A serious discussion of the game's direction - Forum

" Moesan wrote: as far as im concerned this economy is already jacked beyond repair. unless you have tons of chaos gcp an exalts you already cant buy anything of any usefulness hell in just the last 2 days gcp to exalt have gone from 13 to 14 up to 15 and 17. really? i see people all the time post about how you can buy a 5L chest for 10 to 20 chaos. good tell me where at. every body ive whispered about a 5L with only 3 or 400 es....which as far as im concerend thats mid grade.........wants a minimum of 5 to 10 exalts. the rate of inflation of orbs is increasing so fast that i cant even farm enough to keep up with it any more. 2 weeks ago i could get 3 gcp for 180 alts this week i could only get 2gcp an 2 chaos. and ive already seen some people trying to charge 70 to 75 alts for 1 gcp. with low IIQ and IIR you dont get jack shit for item drops to turn into orbs. nor do you get orb drops often enough to do any thing with. ideally a person should be able to farm enough orbs in 2 or 3 8 hour sessions that they'd feel comfortable enough to try and craft a new peice of gear. so really id like to hear from the other people. what in the hell do you expect new players to do when they come to this game? what just up an quit? But i guess some will take that attitude of bugger off we dont need new people. and thats fine but i highly doubt the same people who take that attitude will be happy farming the same maps for the next 3 to 5 yrs do to GGG not having enough money to make new content and new maps because it cant grow its player base. i havent found nor crafted an upgrade in over a week. and my gear is crap and when i say crap i mean absolutely crap! how i even manage to survive in zones that still give me 2.5% of a lvl per clear is beyond me at this point. its not like im dumb i fully understand that ARPG's are carrot on a stick games. thats nothing new to me. but after a while people get tired of being starved of the carrot and beaten with the stick. Well unfortunately, if you are playing Softcore, that is what happens in a permanent league with no resets or dumps. I would assume that a majority of the players play Softcore, as well as if you die in a Race/Hardcore/Onslaught, whelp, all your gear is now in Softcore. I'm pretty sure Diablo 3 had this exact same problem where there was no gold sink and items, since they never were destroyed, only lost value over time.	Posted by cypherrage#6683 on Jun 13, 2013, 2:26:21 PM Quote this Post
I was always under the impresion people decided themselves not to craft, and feel that the crafting of items is invaluable by comparing them to trade value's. If u did not compare the orbs ure burning to craft to the "market" value, and just enjoyed the lotto of it all, u might find the crafting system more enjoyable. Hell ive seen people use an exalt on a lvl 25 ring, and everybody had a good laugh. How much market value wil fun/laughs trade for nowadays? Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes	Posted by Boem#2861 on Jun 13, 2013, 2:34:07 PM On Probation Quote this Post
" Boem wrote: Hell ive seen people use an exalt on a lvl 25 ring, and everybody had a good laugh. How much market value wil fun/laughs trade for nowadays? Doesn't that really get to the core of the issue? It's laughable to use an exalt on something that isn't already an amazingly good item. It shouldn't be - you should be able to use them every so often instead of hoarding them.	Posted by VTT#3788 on Jun 13, 2013, 7:47:08 PM Quote this Post
Obligatory page bump.	Posted by VTT#3788 on Jun 13, 2013, 9:12:47 PM Quote this Post
Reading trough the threads here for the last few days, I seriously doubt you will get much serious discussion, this community is over 3/4 garbage already, soon it will be like d3's total shit. I dont like the trading system at all in this game there needs to be some kind of way to set prices as it is everytime I try to buy something, I say what do you want for it? They reply offer...........ok...if they dont like your offer they dont even bother to respond. I have been playing self found, other then having to deal with the trade community. I would like a fix but i doubt there will be one. I also find the drops in this game to be almost as bad as d3's as far as grinding and grinding for what seems like nothing. Between the shit trade system and the crap drops I am getting bored with the game anyways, why the fck do people make loot games that drop shit loot? Thats right games like this are made for people like Kripp, that sit on there ass for 22 hrs a day only playing this game.	Posted by IceM#0840 on Jun 13, 2013, 9:39:48 PM Quote this Post
Dear GGG: I like the game the way it is. I like it hard, hardcore, and challenging. Please don't change it. Thanks! BLAMT!	Posted by Zelpo#5887 on Jun 14, 2013, 12:05:47 AM Quote this Post
Obligatory bump.	Posted by VTT#3788 on Jun 14, 2013, 1:53:50 AM Quote this Post
Up she goes!	Posted by VTT#3788 on Jun 14, 2013, 8:42:05 AM Quote this Post
" Zelpo wrote: Dear GGG: I like the game the way it is. I like it hard, hardcore, and challenging. Please don't change it. Thanks! i hope that's a joke	Posted by GreyPowerVan#6007 on Jun 14, 2013, 12:47:18 PM Quote this Post
" VTT wrote: Up she goes! She may have sailed her last voyage	Posted by cypherrage#6683 on Jun 14, 2013, 12:52:31 PM Quote this Post