That’s not the solution. I’d rather see fresh accounts being banned for 2 weeks to post stuff on AH. Should be long enough to ban them before they do any damage.
I don’t think anyone’s arguing this is a permanent solution, just a piece to alleviate the crush on the market servers, and it’s a relatively low impact on players that could be implemented quickly.
If they even do anything it will probably be to make gems that drop from chaos dungeons untradable first, boss rush tickets are harder to acquire every week so those gems can still be tradable.
The issue is TOO much traffic of gem supply, we are not hating on the supply but too much too quickly affecting player experiences.
while the idea sounds wrong, what honestly else is there to do? There are 40,000 pages of T3 gems on NA-E right now with endless gems being added every second.
If you cannot kill the bot what otherr choice is there right now?
I think some people misunderstand OP, they’re not saying bots will stop selling gems, because of course they can just fuse them. Their point is that it would reduce the number of items on the AH and therefore reduce number of transactions.
Bots are buying level 1 gems because they can fuse them to level 7 and make 5k profit. That’s why there is so many transactions happening on the AH.
Yeah I don’t think it’s a specific deterrent to the bots, but cutting 40,000 pages down to 10,000 or less would likely go a long way in at least letting the rest of us shop.
t1 accs cost 0 pheons and are far more scam resistant than gems
bots auto post matching gems in some regions so they’re not safe at all (they match bid+buy with the exact same gem, if bid is low enough they tap bid on the old gem)
this is why good bussers use t1 acc & good riders refuse to buy gems
i just buy level 3 gems to make lvl 7 cd gems on reaper and sell for 19-20k, make some profit while i also watch youtube or listen to a podcast or show etc.
But when you can buy Lv2 Gems for 1 gold each the profit margin starts to go way up. It’s a slower process, but paying 3G/Lv3 vs 175-200g is a big bonus.
If this is allowed to continue the gem market will turn worthless