I see 20 high end, 100k+ weapons in sale now in first 3 pages of selling threads.
So we are still pretending they are worth 10s of thousands dollars?
Look a bit further, some of these threads also contain either in title or inside [SOLD] so yes. And there, there are quite a few of them sold for 100k even 200k+.
If you see 20 items for sale, imagine there's a list of 100 times bigger of people waiting for the markets to crash so they can upgrade too, it's just a matter of the two sides meeting somewhere. There will always be the impatient ones that will meet with a reseller much faster, especially when tantrums are frequent and gear change has to occur 5 times a year, a reseller will happily make a small fortune there, but also, having a nice portfolio of weapon a reseller can drive prices up and you can thank the impatient ones for prices going this high because when you have an item, any item, and want to sell it, you will always try to sell it for a similar price for which the last ones sold, or similar items. These items do the same thing they did 3-4 years ago when they were worth half the price, it's just the events got a lot better, the potential is much better.
Im trying to have a debate that in my view its better we have 100x endgame weapon worth 25,000ped instead of 10x endgame weapons worth 250.000ped. Items still have great value and more ppl can hunt and generate income to everyone in the game.
Items were much cheaper not long ago, if you didn't think it would be a good investment to get one then, you will likely still not get one in the future - not you in particular, but the type of players that are waiting by the boxes for everything to cost tt+100 PED. If the items would crash that much in price or just be at that price, there would be a different type of player interested in that kind of game.
Right now people get a high DPS weapon and with it they farm another in a year or so mainly because they go hard, because to them it's worth it. To these type of players will not worth to grind just as hard just to break even. I know, to break even is a dream for many but quite a lot of players are making profit and if the incentive goes away, the activity will crash also because there won't be anymore hunters that look at loot every year, but hunters that will look at every loot and will quit the hunt every 10th loot because loot is bad and lootius is not on their side that day. Atm we have a mix of the two. But if the price on highest weapon goes to 25k ped, game won't head into a very good direction and chances are it will die soon, imo.
If you want to profit, you can profit with anything, any item, even with L. Better grade gear allows bigger profits. If you don't know how to do it with the smaller of the items, you won't do it with the biggest and best of them so stop dreaming they will be at tt+100 one day, you will be disappointed with the results as you think they do something magic * (again, not addressed to you in particular, but to the profile of players that are in spectate mode waiting for the game to become shit so they can play too, with the end game gear).
* Refer to this in depth tutorial of the loot 2.0 weapons: https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/forum/index.php?threads/the-secret-of-weapons-exposed.281450/
.. "my story from f105 to mod nano
