phrozenRa said:
I see it this way. Why would you need to buy an imk2, when you can lend one and go hunt for 24hour and make proffit with it ....?
Lending system = less money deposited... aka not good for the business
As MA controls the amount of rare and especially cost effective items I really doubt that as reason.
These items may be very cost efficient, but I very much doubt that the little money lost here would be of any impact.
What is far more important and what I believe to be MAs reason for that decision is, that it would be a resellers dream come true.
Look at it that way: if today a reseller manages to get hold of a large stock of rare items (maybe even all of one sort) he has a short amount of time in which prices will rise very much.
After that time prices will surely sink very much again as at some point people will lose interest in items that are a pure "myth" - at some stage questions like "are these stats on pewiki for real? never have seen such an item" and such would start to happen.
So the reseller cannot hold on to items for too long.
Buying and hogging all Mod. FAPs for example would be crazy - it would be dead capital with a probable huge loss after some time.
But with a lending system in place it would be sensible to get a hold on all rare items of a type at nearly any costs.
It would even make sense to try and buy not so rare items and make them become rare, even if nobody would pay the huge markup you could just loan out and with the profit of that you fund to put the stuff on auction for month after month at silly markup rates.
Imagine someone holding all Mod. FAPs and just lending them out.
What then? Should MA just "drop" some more? Or just "take them away" from the player?
It would take any control from MA about it and ALSO any control from it that the market currently has.
Reseller is a swearword already, but I would predict that "Loaner" would become the swearword to top reseller in no time.
At first I thought about how cool a lending system would be,
but now I am happy they decided like they did.
But while writing all this...
what would happen if such a system would be only available at certain timeframes?
Maybe like active for one month and then again inactive for one month?
This could maybe be a very cool control mechanism for the market.
But as MA has very limited resources as it seems this will not happen as it just would be an experimental thing and for such its not sensible to use up development time with it.
Edit:Someone was faster than me. *g*