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Thursday, September 15th 2016, 8:09pm

Diamond NPC

Let us buy dias with gold. Make them bound. I think this would help bring back players that buy diamonds.
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Thursday, September 15th 2016, 8:45pm

Hmmm..no, I don't think that would work at all. GF depends on their income from selling diamonds for real world cash. By implementing a diamond for gold trade in game you eliminate the need for diamond buyers outside game. By eliminating the income for GF you eliminate any reason GF has for supporting the game.

The only way a diamond for gold trade could work is for the diamonds to be of very limited availability or amount such that you might restore some interest but not destroy GF income. And...they tried this limited scope effort a few years back..and, it apparently did not work since they did not continue it.
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Thursday, September 15th 2016, 9:56pm

5 diamonds per day and per account (150 diamonds per month), those diamonds cannot be used for gifting and applicable only to that said account. That would make it non exploitable and would have no weight on the game economy and other players or even Gameforge.

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Thursday, September 15th 2016, 10:42pm

buy jewels, drillers etc.

abl item needing that stuff.

exploited.
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Thursday, September 15th 2016, 10:54pm

<censored>. I agree with Zidlef.. limit the amount per day. In free to play games you should be able to obtain every item without having to spend outside money. People would still buy diamonds and there would be more people playing. They really need to look at rifts payment models.. my ideas are not to benefit myself but the game itself. More players equals a better in game economy as well as more revenue for Gameforge. People are still going to buy diamonds.

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Thursday, September 15th 2016, 11:00pm

150 dias/month.. you can't even plus one thing with 150 dias/month. + 69 dias for an abl. No more exploitable than farming tokens on alts.
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Friday, September 16th 2016, 12:10am

and as such it makes it non exploitable unless you wait one year to use said diamonds and would help new toons to get stuff to help them eventually.

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Friday, September 16th 2016, 1:18pm

Far better just to put diamonds back in the Auction House and make them bound. That way every diamond must be bought for real money from Frogster. When people could buy diamonds in the Auction House every one had diamonds that had been paid for with real money. The charge to sell the diamonds also worked as a great gold sump. The gold for diamonds NPC does not allow Frogster to get any real money for its diamonds. Putting diamonds back in the Auction House requires every diamond to be paid for with real world money in addition anyone could get enough diamonds to purchase anything.
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Sunday, September 18th 2016, 1:05pm

I think the ideas are not either-or.

Dias npc has an inherit balancing problem: allow very limited exchanges and the impact on popularity of RoM will be limited as well. Allow more and GF may beafraid of income loss. I'd still say that even a limited-exchange NPC would make RoM more attractive.

Dias on AH or other way to directly trade dias is a complementary (rather than a competing) idea. It is VERY MUCH NEEDED irrespective of wheather there is a dias NPC. Trading dias would help both f2p and p2p players, and ... would immediately boost GF profits!

So yeah, +1 for aardvark3 for bringing it up!
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Tuesday, October 4th 2016, 1:25am

Umm not to sound stupid redundant but can't you allredy buy Dia in the AH with coin? as in Dia allredy bought by a player with cash currency. simply by putting a stack of coin in AH for a set ammount of Dia? :confused:

update: I just checked in server, the game was designed to trade dia for coin but you have that option blcoked off in AH.

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Monday, October 10th 2016, 8:14pm

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Umm not to sound stupid redundant but can't you allredy buy Dia in the AH with coin? as in Dia allredy bought by a player with cash currency. simply by putting a stack of coin in AH for a set ammount of Dia? :confused:

update: I just checked in server, the game was designed to trade dia for coin but you have that option blcoked off in AH.


Yep, this was consciously disabled by GF in January 2014. Here is the announcement. But from the get-go GF did recognize that some form of dias trade is very much needed (great for players and ... would be immediately profitable for GF), so right away in the same announcement they promised:

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We are already working on alternative method to enable you to trade diamonds again.


We will soon have the third anniversary of this announcement and GF did not leak the slightest comment about any progress of the implementation of this "alternative method to trade diamonds again"... ;(
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