When you guys think it'll start inflating again?

Or do you think it will hang around current prices?

This is in reference to both 3rd party gold, FG:IGG, crystals:IGG etc.. Just general value of gold.

Doesn't seem like there is a large amount of gold generated by organic play (from the game, not AH) with the current content.

/e I am assuming a large portion of gold in circulation has been produced by bots.

This post was edited by Commm on Mar 28 2022 04:03pm

no idea, would be great if any seller/botter would let us know how they're handling with the new update preventing them to use AH/trade etc.

What's the update?

Last update there was a banwave, and also they added some features that the account must have $5 deposited in steam to be able to use AH, trade etc....so that kinda prevented multiple accounts to use those features.

But i'm curious, how the gold suppliers are handling this now tbh, thats probably the reason gold inflated

Ahh yea, I'm sure that definitely affected prices. Wonder if they can just gift the $5 over and over? I don't use steam a lot so maybe not lol.

As for sellers/botters, I doubt there are any kingpins here, mostly either foreigners or kids trying to flip from RMT sites.

I think the other problem is the fact that most of the good shit can't be bought with blue crystals, so people need to use gold+AH...if they had better shop items for blue crystals, I'm sure we'd see an increase (omen pack released around the "ban waves").

This post was edited by Commm on Mar 28 2022 04:58pm

You've sold 3million gold so far apparently right? How's the update effected your business if you need to have money deposited into the account to use AH etc.

I just know 95% of the inflation is bc the constant banwave to sellers.
They did like 5 banwaves in 2weeks and half. So millions and millions of gold gone.

I find it hard to believe that botters had millions on hot accounts.

Seems much more likely they shift their gold often and didn't lose nearly as much as people are saying.

Now people pay 3x as much...kinda like what's going on in the real world today.

Not saying the banwaves didn't have an impact, they definitely did, but I just don't see these guys getting outsmarted by smilegate/amazon/whoever...they are almost always 1 step ahead, and again, only complete morons (which the botters most definitely are not - perhaps their customers, but not the botters) would get caught with hundreds of thousands on a hot account.

As for the "banwaves", it looks like pretty steady decline rather than "a million accounts being banned" within 2 weeks.

https://steamcharts.com/app/1599340#1m

After some thought, I believe it is likely they nerfed sources of gold for low-level bots (which has been confirmed from my understanding), touted it as "a big banhammer", gold value shot up and amazon wins because we pay more $$ on the exchange for less gold and people are scared to buy 3rd party because they have been so "proactive" with their "bans". That, and a lot of shop items are only obtainable with rc or on the AH, so gold > purple crystals, which wasn't really the case before the omen sets (which, in case you didn't realize, coincided with the "bans" and gold increasing in value). The exchange dictates the value of gold, both on the AH as well as RMT sites. Since people can buy skins and sell for more than they can sell for gold on the exchange, purple crystal value drops, RMT price goes up accordingly and prices of gold settles much higher because less gold is being bought and sold on the exchange. The exchange is what $$ and gold value are predicated on.

It is smoke and mirrors.

This post was edited by Commm on Mar 28 2022 08:49pm

Once they add they actual raids. because at the moment, there is only like ~2k gold to be earned at t3 per week (more if you are able to do argos part 2/3) The new raid will give 4500 gold (i believe). so thats a huge increase. It may even be more, since amazon said they want to introduce more end game ways to "make" gold.

Because they removed gold from the early Rapport's, the depresssion of gold was bound to happen sooner or later. it didnt matter if they actually banned the bots, because bots typically make gold by farming shit and selling now. While some "Personal" bots actually level up and get to T3, then farm endless chaos for mats and sell, however they are not just putting millions of gold into the economy, because as I said they are selling stuff.

This post was edited by Messycan on Mar 28 2022 09:33pm

Also T1 mats are x3 the price of T3 mats, gold selllers buy em to fast level their bots/farmer accounts I guess.