Buying Meseta, would it break the PSO2 economy?

[the_importer_]

Let's face it, there comes a time when you just don't want to quest for cash, you want something right now in order to buy something from the player stores or to grind/craft/affix a weapon or unit.

One of the most common ways to get cash quickly is to buy AC Tickets and hope to get something valuable. On average, with 12 tickets, I'll get at lease 30 millions worth of stuff to sale mainly because I normally get 1 lobby action or a few equipment lab items with high resale value.

Of course, AC Tickets are a form of lottery, you could end up with crap that will barely get you 5 millions, so hence why I ask this question. If you could bypass the lottery concept and simply buy Meseta using AC, would it potentially break the economy?

Please state a reason behind your response, simply answering Yes or No is not helpful.

[Kondibon]

AC scratches put new items into the economy, many of which only come from them. Meseta already has many sources of being aquired ingame.

For an example of how buying ingame gold/money/etc could directly affect the economy look at gaia online. = w=

[Anduril]

I believe so, since if you could buy meseta directly, there would be no reason to buy AC scratches for profit, thus a drop in the amount of AC scratch items on the market, and thus inflation increases to worse levels than what we already have.

[the_importer_]

AC scratches put new items into the economy, many of which only come from them. Meseta already has many sources of being aquired ingame.

For an example of how buying ingame gold/money/etc could directly affect the economy look at gaia online. = w=

Not familiar with gaia online, could you tell us what happened when they allowed players to buy in-game currency with real world cash?

[emeraude]

Look at SEA. Not saying it doesn't happen in JP, but I know RMT is pretty prevalent over there, if even just on Ship 2 (personally know people who do this and have been suspended, but not before fucking up the economy.)

Selvaria Long is listed for 200 million. Foot Wing for 150mil. LAs regularly go for 90-150mil. Not a lot of players scratch, people have massive amounts of money, inflation skyrockets.

[Kondibon]

Not familiar with gaia online, could you tell us what happened when they allowed players to buy in-game currency with real world cash?

Literally everything in the player trading, more or less ended up with 3 extra zeros on it. The only way to get involved in the economy at that point was to buy the gold directly or buy cash shop items to sell. It got so bad that they basically had to increase the gold yield from everything else, add a bunch of ludicrous gold sinks and add some relatively common items that anyone could get but would be in high demand.

Gaia isn't a game so this doesn't prevent people from just continuing as normal on the forums, but imagine if that happened in PSO2. Tacos would be rendered useless because you'd end up making more money selling 1* fodders, and all the mesetta sinks would have to be increased to compensate, and anyone who isn't premium or gets a constant supply of 3 day shop tickets won't be able to buy stuff anywhere as easily.

All of this hits new players REALLY hard.

EDIT: That's not to say it can't be done well if it's like say, GW2 and based on the current economy and relatively restrictive. If it's a fixed amount then it'd cause too many problems.


EDIT2: Some more details I left out. The gold buying was for limited times, not always, but the gold basically stayed in the economy. Even after things stabilized and they increased most of the gold sinks, literally any time they released another "Flinn's plunder" (the thing with the gold in it), there'd be a price spike in the market and the prices of everything would double. >_>

[kuromechan]

as long it's not actual RMT then it's ok

[Kondibon]

Just for reference the gaia thing wasn't RMT. It was a cash shop item that gave you a random (but insane) amount of gold. So no, I don't think that matters as far as economy goes.

[yoshiblue]

If things get too bad. Just strike down every price by having an NPC called Seiyu or Wakana sell everything at an unbeatable price. Because unbeatable "supply lines".

[jooozek]

generate meseta with real money? fuck no
exchange meseta for ac with players? thats ok