First this is not a post to complain, but I want to hear read what others think and see the opinion’s from new to legacy players.
Me personally I see it as two things:
To keep the market under control - Maybe with inflation and manipulating the constant trading of gear - however there limited amount of times you can trade gear.
Slow player progression - This is honestly what I think it comes down to. It’s one thing with the above mention, however if I save gear for my alts I should be able to freely (maybe some silver to send via mail) send them my gear or put it in my roster storage without having to keep farming over and over again for said piece of gear (definition of insanity). In my opinion it’s never a positive thing to slow down player progression; that’s game regression. With the way the current honing system is and the amount of gold it takes; I rather sell duplicate gear on the market for others that need/want it and use the profits to level up my main/alts. Since LOA really pushes creating alts this would go hand in hand with that vision and honestly might make it more fun. Ex. after one raid it would be great to transfer gear to an alt and help others run another raid vs not being able to as well due to gear. That’s like me charging my brother for giving him my shoes or shirt. Family hand-me-downs
Again, this is not to complain, just want feedback on the system and ways to improve it.
the point is to make money for SG/ags and nothing more, alt friendly btw you won’t get a response from CM they avoid this topic like its a disease xD
A simple search would of told you.
But the pheon system exists SOLELY to create a demand for Blue Crystals which in turn creates a demand for Royal Crystals. The game is a FOR PROIT company.
That is the MAIN reason for pheon existence. As a SIDE EFFECT they prevent flipping of “lower” cost items.
Pheons are not a gold sink since the blue cyrstals you buy with gold, the gold goes to the person who SOLD the royals. Gold isn’t removed from the economy with pheons.
Pheons are not meant to prevent flipping, market manipulation, or act as a gold sink.
The sole purpose is drive demand for blue crystals.
Without pheons, the only reason to buy blue crystals would be Mari shop (which is not worth anymore).
Without people spending gold on blue crystals, there isn’t any gold available to sell to people that buy gold with royal crystals.
The reduction of market manipulation/flipping is just a side effect, not the reason they’re in the game.
Regarding gold sink, the gold you use to buy blue crystals is sold to people for royal crystals. No gold is destroyed in this transaction. It is moved from person buying blue crystals for pheons to a person buying gold with royal crystals.
Rather have the pheon system then some OTHER system they put in place to generate a demand for people to spend money. Image things like, 25 blue crystals to use a bifrost, or 10 blue crystals to use the ocean liners. 10 blue crystals to enter the hourly chaos gates. Pheons are at least of “bam” this costs X if you want to buy Y.
Believe me they would add a different method to generate income if pheons didn’t exist.
It doesnt really remove gold though. Even if you use gold to buy blue crystals. You are paying gold to the people wgo bought the crystals to sell them in the first place… Yes there is a small 5% fee, but that doesnt really remove much gold.
Ive seen multiple posts of people saying this doesnt affect tbeir flipping at all. They just buy the high profit items. Whats losing a few k for pheons when you make 20k profit anyway.
you won’t get a response from CM they avoid this topic like its a disease xD