Do the Devs intend to address gold inflation at all? As the supply of gold increases prices in game will become negligible. The AH will reflect the real value of items, however everything that costs gold in game will not scale with inflation, so the real cost of in game purchases (potions, artisan skills, and repairing) will decrease. The occurrence of account roll-backs exacerbates the issue as well. Every time blizzard rolls back someone's account they're essentially duplicating the money that person had in their possession. If, say, 5% of players are hacked a month (made up statistic) and they're all rolled back, and they possess 5% of the total gold in the game, that is 5% inflation a month, discounting all other factors of inflation. That's roughly 80% inflation a year. The gold drops off of monsters also decline in real value, so that will help to reduce the rate of inflation over time, however account roll backs will continue to make it an issue. Could this actually become an issue? If D3 is alive and well in 5 years and inflation continues at, say, 5% a month, the supply of money will be 18 times larger then than it is today. Something that costs 1 million gold in the AH now will cost 18 million gold. If an mob drops 1000 gold it will be like dropping 50 gold. Seeing as the cost of buying gold (as I'm reminded every minute or so) has halved in the last week from about $30 to $15, I'd say inflation is far more than 5% a month. Could this become a problem?
No, becouse Blizzard will add some money sinks or ppls will start actually disolving gear and craft new one instead of vendoring everything. BS craft prices tuning is a move in right direction, now just need more viable crafts.
P.S. Just remmembered that repair costs are going up in 1.3.
-15% AH cut
-Repair costs (which are going up significantly in 1.0.3)
-Crafting costs (which are dropping admittedly, but are still there)
These are the main 3 gold sinks which should keep gold under control. If they do not, then Blizzard will take steps to ensure it is handled. They definitely don't want another D2 scenario, where gold is utterly worthless because there's so much of it floating around.
If you think gold sinks will help the game , your crazy.
Farming gold right now is a joke. I think gold will become pointless just like it did in D2. Granted yes everything was paid for my runes/sojs because of duping, but still.
Good items will be over 500 billion soon, and are only going to rise. Trying to figure out what something is worth in gold will become stupid.
A increase in repair bills won't matter because people will be dying less because of the nerf, it wont affect anything. It will balance out.
Game hasn't even been out a month and gold prices are already over millions. So yes, gold will become obsolete.
Edit: only solution I could think of is every 3 months, blizzard deletes 75% of everyones gold. This will keep it low. But I don't think this would be possible.
P.S. Just remmembered that repair costs are going up in 1.3.
-15% AH cut
-Repair costs (which are going up significantly in 1.0.3)
-Crafting costs (which are dropping admittedly, but are still there)
These are the main 3 gold sinks which should keep gold under control. If they do not, then Blizzard will take steps to ensure it is handled. They definitely don't want another D2 scenario, where gold is utterly worthless because there's so much of it floating around.
Farming gold right now is a joke. I think gold will become pointless just like it did in D2. Granted yes everything was paid for my runes/sojs because of duping, but still.
Good items will be over 500 billion soon, and are only going to rise. Trying to figure out what something is worth in gold will become stupid.
A increase in repair bills won't matter because people will be dying less because of the nerf, it wont affect anything. It will balance out.
Game hasn't even been out a month and gold prices are already over millions. So yes, gold will become obsolete.
Edit: only solution I could think of is every 3 months, blizzard deletes 75% of everyones gold. This will keep it low. But I don't think this would be possible.