A little explanation of what is happening to our economy
Lately I've seen quite some people wonder about what is happening to our economy. More and more people have billions of mesos; millions of mesos is not even close to being funded anymore. Items are inflation like crazy. How is this happening? Therefore I will try to give you a little explanation about what is happening to the Maple economy right now (In most servers)
This is just my opinion about it, and I understand it that some people might have other thoughts about it, but I'd like to share my thoughts and theories about it with you. Just to make a basic explanation.
Right now, the most common trend we are seeing in most of our servers is: Items are inflating, mesos are deflating.
How is this happening?
It's way easier to get mesos than ever before, one billion mesos is not even close to being funded anymore now, and godly items gone up from ~100m to way over Max mesos.
The problem? You can think of many reasons why this is happening. Let's take Hackers for example.
What do you think that happens to the mesos of all those people who are hacked, or will be hacked, by, for example, the 'MTS hack' ?
They are all going to Gold Sellers. Hundreds of people are being hacked, billions of mesos are coming available at once.
This causes the price of mesos in $ to deflate, which also makes mesos more useless, since getting them is getting more and more easy.
This way prices of items will rise again. You might think, 'Why do prices of items rise, because of money deflating?'
This is because of the amount of money people have. If everyone can easily get 1 billion mesos, godly items will get more expansive, since this 1 billion, is now nothing anymore: Everyone has it. From a sellers perspective: Since you want to buy something better after your sales, you are not going to sell your item for 1 billion mesos, which you would do before, but for 1.5 billion mesos, for example.
Since so many people can spent these 1.5 billion mesos, the demand for the item is bigger as well, making it possible as well to sell the item for this price.
Causing this price to install. You could carefully say that the average property (in money) of people has increased as well. The money is divided more proportional: Fewer insanely rich people, more semi-rich people. So more people are spending money on substitute items, where before only one person bought this item.
In short, Deflation of money, automatically means a inflation of items.
Ways to stop it from happening? Might sound funny, but I am afraid that we, the average maplers, can't stop it from happening.
We keep on buying our stuff, and most of us will never say 'Nah, I don't want more mesos easily!'
We are most likely going to need Hackers for this as well, and that is something that most people, at least me, are not waiting for..
What makes prices drop? Mass supply of items. We need dupers to dupe godly items, white scrolls, etc. You know what happened to the Chaos scrolls for example right?
Most economies of our worlds are already lost. New servers might have a chance, if the internet is getting more savely and hackers will not join this server at all.
Impossible, Ikr..
I hope that this gave you a explanation of what is happening right now and some of the basics of how the economy works. I just used some random numbers, I know that not everyone has more than a billion mesos, but I just used these numbers to give clear examples.
Also, I think that my story sounds very clear to most of you out here, but I am making this for people who don't know much about the activity of an economy at all.
I appologize for my poor English and with this mainly grammar as well. I'm from Holland and not a native speaker.
Thanks for reading. Sharing your thoughts about it is more than welcome.
~RebornWarior.
4 Comments • Newest first
the maple economy is far from the real world economy. Due to hyperinflation from unlimited supply of mesos, prices will always go up. Prices are controlled by the main merchants of each world. They do not care if they don't make a profit in one month, eventually everyone will come crawling back to buy their items.
1 way to fight mesos deflation is if nexon started increasing security and cracking down on hackers and botters. also if they gave a little gift if a report you sent in leads to a botter/hacker getting shut down would give more of the community incentive to start helping out, thus bringing everything back down to scale.
Although nexon is going to need a new batch of security programmers, a whole onslaught of GMs which actually do something and some effort on their part, i think the overall quality of the game will rise and the markets will be a lot more "friendly" to the newcomers or people who are getting by with the skin of their teeth
reducing item drop rates will increase demand and cause higher prices
[quote=Photographe]Umm, I'd have to agree with you for the most part. I don't know about your servers but the prices of items here are fluctuating a lot. For example, 10 attack work gloves are waving from 280-350M all over the place in the past 1-2 weeks. Also, Scania seems to have a lot of hacked cravens,stonetooths, and 27 attack vss. You say that the hackers need to mass dupe these items, but isn't that going to ruin gameplay? I mean, if you have 200+ att weapons, bossing, levelling, etc. is made so much easier for you.[/quote]
Exactly, that is the sole reason that I don't want this to be happening at all. But I am afraid, however, that this is the only way to possibly get the prices down again.
Except from items deflating on time, because the stats which are good right now, won't be as good in a couple of months anymore, but that doesn't solve the problem, because those items are already trash by then and not important anymore. By then, new items are the new problem. Know what I mean?
Duping the items would indeed ruin the gameplay and would also be really unfair for people who actually spent time and effort into getting the harmed items.
EDIT:
@ymmot That is absolutely true, another cause of the hackers, but the money of hacked people is most of the time not just held by the hackers.
Of course, there are some who do this, but most of the hackers/groups sell the mesos to Gold Selling websites. These websites could never get so many mesos just from Legit people selling there mesos, you see? But what you say is very true as well.