You already explained it yourself, it’s supply and demand.
Whales get value from supplying. The less F2P and low spenders you have the less value whales get due to decrease in demand.
The entire dynamic of the market rests on this. F2P people also need whales/spenders to move the market.
If you remove F2P/low spenders from this equation, whales can still get value from the shop, but only a fraction of what they get on a vibrant and active market.
Other games have different mechanics.
What’s wrong with that exactly?
If you want to keep playing the game for free, this is the literal thing that allows you to do so. Players buying RC with real money and selling them for gold so that you, a F2P can also interact with the Mari’s shop/game store. You have NO right to complain that not enough people are buying royal crystals if you yourself choose not to do so. It’s designed in a way so that game can be funded and enjoyed for free at the same time.
They are even too generous with the system. I would’ve made all cosmetics exclusively RC only and unsellable in the AH. That would’ve made much more money than just cheap system like pheons that keeps players spending.
Blue crystal prices are due to:
The holding limit of gold for 3 days - no whales not even regular spenders will use the exchange if their gold is being held for 3 days. You have now a situation of where skins and gold from RC being delay for these spenders, but gold are still being generated from daily content.
The conversion of royal crystal into blue crystal is quiet frankly not enough to keep up with the demand on top of the delay.
This is all not the faults of the players, but AGS/SG side. You supported AGS to strangle and singled out players using VPN, etc. up to this point is the result, just like supporting the 3-days lock down is now the cause of this as well.
So true!
It has nothing to do with the community. The fact that the devs put in the 3-day gold suspension hold while releasing a large volume of the most popular summer cosmetics in the history of the game that are purely RC locked that then after 3 days sell for double their RC value; means that the whole problem was created by the devs this time
So before the crystal market/macro economy was largely ruined by RMTing and whatever came with it. Then it was fixed to a large degree, but as soon as the economy healed, the devs decided to ruin the macro economy again with this very poor decision that is the direct cause for the latest rises in prices
Bruh you don’t play on SA, you don’t know anything about the struggle there. Stop it.
its only going to get higher. its way worse in Korea lol
why are people even complaining about this lol. Gold is so free in this game its not even funny. i dont even blink when i exchange for blue crystals lol.
Sounds like I hit too close to home.
You forgot the tax where steam taxes that. Its more like 150$ CDN for 40k lol
Take your pills
Think of F2Ps as the cute girls at the club.
I see some of them more like weird and loud twitter girls demaning stuff all the time because some people can afford stuff they don’t.
lmao right between the eyes 
blah blah blah. youre completely ignoring the fact that RMT swipers bought literally millions of gold and then bought way more blue crystals than anyone is supposed to have access to, thus completely destroying the price for normal players
If whales get RC and then purchase skins just to sell inorder to get more Gold than straight to converting.
→ Blame F2P-Players
If whales go over RMT instead of legit RC.
→ Blame F2P-Players
If whales are overgeared with perfect setup, but suck at mechs. Need bus.
→ Blame F2P-Players
If a store isn’t financially effective, because the service sucks. Don’t blame the customers, it’s the store.
All i know is Amazon is only getting like maybe 4-5% money from me when they could get more if they priced their royal crystals/gold competitively/close to RMT rates.
If they couldn’t do that, then release legendary skins/things you cant just buy with gold but Amazon is like nope we don’t want your money lol. Thanks Amazon!
$100 USD should get you months of weekly equivalent mats.
$100 USD buys you an ENTIRE GAME usually.
It’s a free to play game it isn’t being based off triple A pricing.
To expect that, it’s unrealistic.itz not the same pricing model.
On top of this, $100 clearly means something more or different to you than to other people. To me $100 is an hour of work, so to base it off this is too subjective as everyone’s situation is different. E.g. An hours worth of mats to me sounds pretty darn good vs waiting a week for weeklies to reset etc.
I’m not F2P and pheons are bullshit. I don’t like paying taxes IRL why would I like to pay taxes in a game?
stopped at 1.
you do realize AGS sets the gold conversion ratio right?
The reason ppl RMT is because by all accounts the conversion is a rip off.
Its iunno $10 for 2Kg
Yeah thats less than 2 hones for some people.
If you need to buy mats is that even 1 hone iunno
if u are unaware NA global version has been nerfing gold resources since launch my guy. AGS reduced our supply, allowed RMT bots run rampant increasing the supply while legitimate players have 0 income. Presently only Day 1 nolife players and whales can afford current prices since they rode the wave and currently make 50-60K per week across 6 characters. You are correct BC are not an issue our version of the game is Eventually we will get there but this is a manufactured issue don’t get it twisted. Other regions got 1445 honing buffs 2-3 weeks after Vykas (RU) and gear to lvl up alts were not character bound. Its much much easier to level up alts in other regions compared to ours similar time all things equal. Our version is known to be the most P2W version of Lost Ark as a result.