SW:TOR will experience the first ever overnight ecomonic crash of an MMO.

I dont agree with a lot of what TUX says but this assesment is WAY off the mark.

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It wasnt an attack...I was asking a question. And feel free to read through this discussion he wants nothing to do with the facts.

As well reasoned as your post is, it seems to miss the point of why BW engineered the upcoming release the way they did. I would posit that the impending credit crash is intentional. In fact, I would claim that GSH is specifically designed to massively drain credits from the in-game economy to boost the value of Cartel Coins.

Right now, an average player like myself that has earned The Wealthy title can purchase any cartel market item they want with credits (which I do for the most part and have done since F2P). I receive a monthly CC stipend, but rarely use it. I am sitting on a kitty of 10K+ CC as a result.

If I participate fully in GSH by purchasing multiple strongholds, a guild stronghold and a guild ship, I would be tapped out of credits almost overnight. This would leave me with only my CC which I would have to use to unlock Legacy Storage. This is intentional and by design.

However, I am not the average player (Casual PvEr). I am a PvPer, and as a result, am a member of very small guilds. The majority of fellow PvPers I've spoken with don't care one bit about strongholds and housing. Many of us are receiving a free stronghold with 2 rooms and that's more than enough for us.

The one thing we are interested in is Guild Ships because of the potential OPvP, however, they are priced so far out of the range of what we can afford that we've lost interest in them.

Now I already see the deflation of credits happening on the GTN for crafted items. So I won't be making credits like I used to. But at the same time, I won't need to because none of the content designed to take my credits away is of real interest to me.

You can still attack someone while asking a question. It all depends on the phrasing, and the intent behind it.

This. Except for the three years. I have just one year of reading his posts.

they did have this guy working on the economy. dont know his name or if he is still around.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8vvpadp7hE

OP, I read your entire post, twice, with great interest... can I just say... while you can apply the theory of RL Economics to games, that actual crash would cause.... what? Jedi's pimping out their companions for credits? I hear Kira and Mako can earn more creds an hour than running dailies...

If anything, your available credits (if you choose not to participate in GSH) will buy you more... which you can horde and sell at a later date (buy low, sell high).

And, by the buy... not the first game to introduce a credit sink... since we all understood what that term meant... my guess, its been done before (personally experienced it myself, in multiple games). The lamentations of the "economy is crashing" had a net effect of ... 0 on game play.

But, it was a well thought out and articulated post none the less.

Hahaha! Not very, but you are funny so please continue sharing your insights.

That's a lot of hyperbole.