Hey Knuckle. Yeah that post got out of hand quickly. And I didn't preview it, expecting wysiwyg, but oh well. I have thoughts about games I'd like to see come out supporting a RMT service. Is there some general website people flock to about game development ideas? Discussion among players from various games? I'm working on adding that to my puny eq2 links site, but I hate re-inventing the wheel.
Lets hope they fix these dupes/exploits whatever, and prices rebound. I've seen several "Returning to EQ2" posts in the newbie forums lately. I even offer a little help if they choose the bazaar.
I play on one of EverQuest 2's Station Exchange servers. Let me tell you its a much better market for the sellers than any of the 3rd party selling sites I've been told of. I've spoken with 4 of the chinese farmers (yes they were from china) that have played on my server. They all said they got about 50 cents per platinum lately. They all received different wages however.
One was a manager that had decent English skills. He even later started his own farming business. He told me how his boss had trouble making a profit even though he had 30 or so computers going round the clock, two people working 11 hour shifts. This one said the average worker could make about 200 USD a month if they were good at english. The manager himself said he could make 2000 a month, though he may have been boasting at the time. He has not commented on how much he makes now that he has his own business. He still maintains that, with decent English skills, you could make 200 a month being an employee at a farming company. (not selling directly to a reseller like IGE) Workers in his system receive extra money beyond a certain threshold for every platinum they make.
Another well spoken farmer said workers for their much smaller company (2 computers, 3 workers and a boss in the US) were being paid about 90 USD a month flat rate, with no bonus for making extra coin.
Its rather difficult to read the coin market in EQ2. Recently there seems to have been an exploit/dupe going on, with one entity posting 1000+ platinum daily for perhaps 2-4 weeks, 20-30% below the average market low price. SoE has been cracking down on this apparently, but there still may be some of this activity going on. They are rather tight lipped about what they are doing.
However, in spite of a possible dupe, a single platium is worth anywhere from 1 to 1.50 USD or more. I used to be able to do 1p in 1 hour at higher levels. So.. you still aren't making tons of money, but hey, its a game that isn't really geared towards a good economy, with few money sinks and most of the best things being no trade.
The interesting thing is, you could potentially make money at low levels. Newbie Island chest farming is still a viable source of coin, as there are still a few transmuters raising skill that can't simply go farm low level monsters for chests, or dont want to take the time to make an alt. Time will tell if those low level items return to worthlessness or maintain a new value due to their usefulness in adornment making.
In truth, high level characters are fairly cheap, and you could invest in one and simply go about farming to make up the investment. One of, if not the, best raiding guilds on the bazaar just lost most of its memebers to vanguard, so their characters are probably still for sale on the SE. Not that I really want any competition;)
I love the SE. Its pretty easy to use compared to some auction services I've used for real goods. The transactions are safe so they claim. I don't have to deal with auctions for things not related to the game I play. SoE gets a cut, so they could potentially higher some more staff to improve the game, rather than places like IGE taking a cut that don't really contribute to the overall game, even to the point where they drive some players away with their spam tells and mails.
As to offering powerleveling services on eBay... I would hope something that violates the rules set forth by the gaming company would be an issue for eBay. Most games I've played only allow one person to play on a single account. This is a small disadvantage for me, as gold farming companies almost always seem to employ multiple people to use the same account around the clock. At first that seems like a $!5/2 disadvantage, but there is more to it than just the cost of a second account. You have to level up and maintain the second character for instance. In this regard, I would love to see accounts that could intentionally be shared, perhaps for a greater monthly fee to cover bandwidth costs etc. While buying gold is f
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Hey Knuckle. Yeah that post got out of hand quickly. And I didn't preview it, expecting wysiwyg, but oh well. I have thoughts about games I'd like to see come out supporting a RMT service. Is there some general website people flock to about game development ideas? Discussion among players from various games? I'm working on adding that to my puny eq2 links site, but I hate re-inventing the wheel.
Lets hope they fix these dupes/exploits whatever, and prices rebound. I've seen several "Returning to EQ2" posts in the newbie forums lately. I even offer a little help if they choose the bazaar.
I play on one of EverQuest 2's Station Exchange servers. Let me tell you its a much better market for the sellers than any of the 3rd party selling sites I've been told of. I've spoken with 4 of the chinese farmers (yes they were from china) that have played on my server. They all said they got about 50 cents per platinum lately. They all received different wages however. One was a manager that had decent English skills. He even later started his own farming business. He told me how his boss had trouble making a profit even though he had 30 or so computers going round the clock, two people working 11 hour shifts. This one said the average worker could make about 200 USD a month if they were good at english. The manager himself said he could make 2000 a month, though he may have been boasting at the time. He has not commented on how much he makes now that he has his own business. He still maintains that, with decent English skills, you could make 200 a month being an employee at a farming company. (not selling directly to a reseller like IGE) Workers in his system receive extra money beyond a certain threshold for every platinum they make. Another well spoken farmer said workers for their much smaller company (2 computers, 3 workers and a boss in the US) were being paid about 90 USD a month flat rate, with no bonus for making extra coin. Its rather difficult to read the coin market in EQ2. Recently there seems to have been an exploit/dupe going on, with one entity posting 1000+ platinum daily for perhaps 2-4 weeks, 20-30% below the average market low price. SoE has been cracking down on this apparently, but there still may be some of this activity going on. They are rather tight lipped about what they are doing. However, in spite of a possible dupe, a single platium is worth anywhere from 1 to 1.50 USD or more. I used to be able to do 1p in 1 hour at higher levels. So.. you still aren't making tons of money, but hey, its a game that isn't really geared towards a good economy, with few money sinks and most of the best things being no trade. The interesting thing is, you could potentially make money at low levels. Newbie Island chest farming is still a viable source of coin, as there are still a few transmuters raising skill that can't simply go farm low level monsters for chests, or dont want to take the time to make an alt. Time will tell if those low level items return to worthlessness or maintain a new value due to their usefulness in adornment making. In truth, high level characters are fairly cheap, and you could invest in one and simply go about farming to make up the investment. One of, if not the, best raiding guilds on the bazaar just lost most of its memebers to vanguard, so their characters are probably still for sale on the SE. Not that I really want any competition ;)
I love the SE. Its pretty easy to use compared to some auction services I've used for real goods. The transactions are safe so they claim. I don't have to deal with auctions for things not related to the game I play. SoE gets a cut, so they could potentially higher some more staff to improve the game, rather than places like IGE taking a cut that don't really contribute to the overall game, even to the point where they drive some players away with their spam tells and mails.
As to offering powerleveling services on eBay... I would hope something that violates the rules set forth by the gaming company would be an issue for eBay. Most games I've played only allow one person to play on a single account. This is a small disadvantage for me, as gold farming companies almost always seem to employ multiple people to use the same account around the clock. At first that seems like a $!5/2 disadvantage, but there is more to it than just the cost of a second account. You have to level up and maintain the second character for instance. In this regard, I would love to see accounts that could intentionally be shared, perhaps for a greater monthly fee to cover bandwidth costs etc. While buying gold is f