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The TDS rare items are making me wonder if people REALLY spend this kind of money on a single in-game item. Look I'm not criticizing anybody here at all and this post stands alone and has nothing to do with anybody/anything in the Marketplace. I just want to know how many of you would consider spending $100 or more for a piece of loot.
I was going to make this a poll but I'm more curious about opinions than about "ballot" results.
IMO, I would never although I'd only THINK about it for something like an artifact or a super-rare "classic" item---and even then I'd have to worry that they'll "revive" it using casinos and golden tickets or some other lame way. I figure with an artifact the item will probably hold its value and you can recoup it down the road if you get tired of it and need to raise some cash. Otherwise no matter how "fine" the item is you're buying its value and premium stats---relatively speaking---are going to decay down the road as new xpacs come out. I remember paying 2milpp for the Ancient Cloak of Flames when it first started dropping. Bought one for several toons and now they're all being clicked from bags for the clicky buff because every toon, even alts, have better back items. And that's just 2milpp, not a hundred bucks!
I can see the tradeable rares from TDS have greater value on servers other than FV where it's hard to obtain top-notch gear without investing time in raiding. Time IS money, at least for some people. But still, we're talking $100+ here.... you can buy decent level 105 toons for that kind of money, or not much more. And a lot of them come with good gear!
Opinions?
I was going to make this a poll but I'm more curious about opinions than about "ballot" results.
IMO, I would never although I'd only THINK about it for something like an artifact or a super-rare "classic" item---and even then I'd have to worry that they'll "revive" it using casinos and golden tickets or some other lame way. I figure with an artifact the item will probably hold its value and you can recoup it down the road if you get tired of it and need to raise some cash. Otherwise no matter how "fine" the item is you're buying its value and premium stats---relatively speaking---are going to decay down the road as new xpacs come out. I remember paying 2milpp for the Ancient Cloak of Flames when it first started dropping. Bought one for several toons and now they're all being clicked from bags for the clicky buff because every toon, even alts, have better back items. And that's just 2milpp, not a hundred bucks!
I can see the tradeable rares from TDS have greater value on servers other than FV where it's hard to obtain top-notch gear without investing time in raiding. Time IS money, at least for some people. But still, we're talking $100+ here.... you can buy decent level 105 toons for that kind of money, or not much more. And a lot of them come with good gear!
Opinions?