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Originally Posted by BloodAxe
LOL @ blaming TD/hacker in general. TD has always been clear about their goals with Fly. screwing the in game economy doesnt help their goals, if anything it actually helps Gala and thats the complete opposite of what they want to do. However as a hypothetical, lets explore how this would be possible. In order for a hacker to affect the entire game, they would have to buy up every single CS item that would be on sale. Then turn around and inflate the price, someone would then have to buy at the inflated price. Given the Fly community, this person is buying in an attempt to resell at an inflated price. After all the premises of nearly every single money making guide is buy and resell at an inflated price, buy and resell at an inflated price. So people would have to keep buying these items at the increasingly inflated prices. Ive never put much faith in the intelligence of the Flyff community as a collective but even I know that the player base is not stupid enough to fall for this. Or are they?
The start of the problem may have been a hacker but it was the community greed that kept it going. Its greed that causes a person to think "hey if that person is selling that item at an inflated price, then maybe I can resell it even higher than he is". Ive always said FlyFF uses reverse economics in cases of supply and demand, now it seems to apply to price wars too. Instead of trying to undercut the other guy, the sellers are trying to out inflate the other guy, and the sad thing is people continue to buy. You guys want to blame someone for the inflation, blame yourself, inflation is only successful if someone is on the other end buying.
However in this instance there is another culprit, its still fueled by greed, and still the fault of the community, but there's a third variable here. Some of you have gotten close to identifying it but failed to nail the bullseye. Im talking about penya sellers, now yes I know theyve always been around. However you cant deny that they are getting worse. Why? Because Gala isnt doing anything about them. Its foolish to think people arent buying from them. Its cheaper to spend 10 or 20 bucks to get enough penya in game to buy the CS items you want than it is to drop 50 or 60 bucks to buy directly from Gala. Which means a few people go around buying up CS items like hot cakes, which causes inflation because CS sellers think theres a high demand. If you stop and think about it, this is more plausible than trying to blame hackers.
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It's weird. But, TD isn't the only hacker out in flyff, there are others. Its true that supply and demand imbalances causes inflation and deflation, But think what happens if hackers give out penya to certain friends. They will end up buying every cs out there for more than what its worth because they can afford it, therefore raising the inflation. Its not the hacker's fault directly, they are definitely indirectly related to the problem. And most everyone else suffers for it.