If I owned an expensive weapon that wasn't 85 or 90+ eco right now I'd feel somewhat insecure. But anyway I was so laughing at some of the responses especially from LA owners. So funny, really tickled me.
Humour aside, I'm quite keen to see how this new path of super eco weapons is going to pan out over the next year. Ma have set a new standard and since eco is glaring us all in the face as an official item stat, it does make me wonder if the quantities of such items will be similar to quantities of ring drops.
Who knows....we all want one though that's for sure...smiles. Actually that's just made me think...guns in boxes. Now there's a way to sell a billion boxes.
Smiles.
Rick
When I buy an unL weapon, I buy it fully understanding the concept of entropy, and knowing full well that since 2008 all unL items have trended down in value over time. To combat this I try to tailor my game play in such a fashion that the usefulness I get out of an unL item outweighs it's loss in value.
Loss in item value over time is a steady trend.
When it comes to investments within Entropia, the expectation is that the value will either rise or will produce income outweighing potential loss of value. Investment values are typically tied to their ROI.
The risks involved with investments tend to have significantly less to do with comparable investments being released and more to do with the overall health of the game. Compet and DeepToken were both epic failures, as the timing of their release was a day late, a dollar short, and undeveloped.
MindArk appeared to have been devoting a significant amount of effort and manpower into those projects, and their failures had grave implications on the future of the game - particularly since they continued to throw good money after bad with ComPet.
Finally pulling the plug on ComPet boosted confidence in MA's desire to continue development of their original product. This confidence is further boosted by their pulling the plug on DeepToken. It seems the company is moving in the right direction and actually acknowledging their failures. This has positive implications for the future of EU, and gives hope that previous failures (Avatar Statues) may be fixed or acknowledged in the future. It also gives us hope that past promises may begin to come to fruition (space updates, taming, stables, etc).
Laugh all you want, but yes, for those of us investing tens of thousands of dollars into the game it is a big relief when we see some light at the end of the tunnel.