Inzuher Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 (edited) I've noticed how certain decorations and armor sets are missing from the direct purchase options. Item's such as Black Vulkar Swooper Armor Set and Bounty Holding Cell. How come? I thought the days of gambling packs were over. These items are now ridiculously expensive on the GTN, because of the Cartel Market caused inflation, and because their original packs are rarely bought. Edited December 14, 2020 by Inzuher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ceryxp Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 That is because items on the Cartel Market rotate in an out. Although, I completely agree that their rotation scheme could use some work as there are items that have been up there forever (figuratively) whilst a number of other items have either never been or have not been up for quite a long time. I would like it if they rotated items in and out more frequently, giving a chance for every CM item to show up. Alternatively, once a year put up everything up all at once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inzuher Posted December 14, 2020 Author Share Posted December 14, 2020 Or just make everything available so you can purchase it when you need it. Though, I agree your suggestion is preferable to what we have now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ceryxp Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 Or just make everything available so you can purchase it when you need it. That would be nice, but they do not do that so that they can create artificial scarcity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveTheCynic Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 That would be nice, but they do not do that so that they can create artificial scarcity. I wouldn't describe it as artificial scarcity, or at least not in the sense that is used when analysing, e.g. the market for gemstone-quality diamonds (which are actually far more abundant than their price would justify). It's more about giving us an incentive to check in the CM (to see if the thing we want is available) and therefore see other things that are *also* available and/or promoted. In that sense, it has more to do with why supermarkets rearrange what's where every now and then, so we see things we wouldn't otherwise have bought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xina_LA Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 I would like it if they added several more decorations, then changed out which of those are available every week (or at least every month). They expanded the decoration offerings in the Cartel Market awhile back, which was wonderful, but then it just stagnated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ceryxp Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 I wouldn't describe it as artificial scarcity, or at least not in the sense that is used when analysing, e.g. the market for gemstone-quality diamonds (which are actually far more abundant than their price would justify). It's more about giving us an incentive to check in the CM (to see if the thing we want is available) and therefore see other things that are *also* available and/or promoted. In that sense, it has more to do with why supermarkets rearrange what's where every now and then, so we see things we wouldn't otherwise have bought. The problem with your example is that when a grocery store, or any shop, rearranges their merchandise they do not remove items (unless they are Costco). Recently, my grocery store decided to rearrange the "milk" section. Non-dairy milk alternatives were at one end of the wall of refrigerators and dairy milk was at the other end. They swapped them. Yes, they moved things around, but everything was still available. BW does not just rearrange items on the CM. They completely remove items. They do that to increase the value of items by limiting the supply. The very definition of artificial scarcity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveTheCynic Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 The problem with your example is that when a grocery store, or any shop, rearranges their merchandise they do not remove items (unless they are Costco). Recently, my grocery store decided to rearrange the "milk" section. Non-dairy milk alternatives were at one end of the wall of refrigerators and dairy milk was at the other end. They swapped them. Yes, they moved things around, but everything was still available. BW does not just rearrange items on the CM. They completely remove items. They do that to increase the value of items by limiting the supply. The very definition of artificial scarcity. To be sure, it's not exactly the same, but the *goal* is more like what supermarkets do than it is like what De Beers does with diamonds. (That is, the goal is undoubtedly to get us to look in the CM more often, rather than to create scarcity to drive GTN prices.) But I may be wrong, of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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