shodan21
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Isn't that more around 2800?
not when i wrote it, necroposter.
Isn't that more around 2800?
The in-game money cap for PWO is 999,999,999.
When a pokemon is worth more than the in game cap. I'm not sure how many times it happened, but I know for sure that deals have been done that included 2 billion worth of PDs, 1 from in game, 1 from savings, as well as billions worth of pokemon. The overall value of some of the most expensive trades ever has definitely been several billion worth.
Comparing that to today, we're lucky to get deals worth 100s of millions. A lot of people are content with their collections and only need shiny versions of new pokemon. Which they hunt for themselves and occasionally get high quality versions without the need to trade with new players.
As far as I can see, the only solution is more swarms. New players can't buy good stuff, they can't hunt it because it's too rare, and staff won't make a swarm for that. I do finally have some pokemon that are worth something, and I had to get extremely lucky to be able to get these kinds of things, so I can see wanting to protect values. If there were just a swarm for Larvitar, that would ruin a substantial amount of my accounts value. But, if they had swarms on a regular basis and devalued all pokemon equally, then the pokemon vs pokemon value would remain the same so trades wouldn't be effected as much in that sense.
That only leaves the monetary value vs pokemon. That would shift a great deal, and come to reflect the actual values of the pokemon in todays economy, rather than the overly inflated, nostalgic value that many place on their pokemon and we could see the ugly truth behind the economy. Let it crash. Just because it crashes doesn't mean it won't rebound some day. That is the natural life cycle of economies.
The economy will be trash until we either get more money, more pokemon, or more players (but more players isn't likely without a major update to the story mode to make players stay longer, which I assume *IS* being worked towards, albeit slowly. But in the meantime we would have to pick one of the other choices). Take your pick, but you HAVE to pick one or the other and go with it. Or just let the economy be TRASH.