You guys are seeing Zeny inflation as a problem, but it's only really a problem for players doing extremely high value sales. For anything vendable or under the zeny limit the difference between an inflated economy and an uninflated economy is mostly superficial. While I would say Ragnarok has progressed to the point where simply farming items to sell for zeny in the shop is no longer really a viable option, making money in an inflated economy from other players is absurdly easy and at this point giving players an option to *not* participate in a player economy is a bad idea, considering the health of the game.
I would agree that a fix needs to come in for the zeny cap trading issue, but hyperinflation is never a real issue in a digital economy because most of the logistical problems that arise from hyperinflation (rapid devaluation, cost of printing currency, carrying currency, etc) are all irrelevant. The cost of items in digital economies and the value of currency are purely arbitrary values. As long as the values remain constant at all levels of the economy the barrier to entry is no higher, and if anything, the much greater availability of currency lends more fluidity to the market - it's easier to enter and participate in the player economy now than ever before, because many of the low level items you used to only be able to dump on a vendor can now be sold in player shops because the huge availability of currency makes paying for quest items or low end consumables financially viable.
TL;DR Inflation only effects you, the player, negatively if you're sitting on billions of zeny for months at a time. The number of 0s at the end of your Zeny total is purely arbitrary and the more 0s you have the better the player economy becomes. Inflation in a digital currency is a good thing.
I don't see any inflation. Rather there's horrible deflation going on.
I don't know if there's deflation going on so much this month as it's suddenly become apparent how much of the player economy is intrinsically tied to Glastheim and the monsters that have been in Turn-Ins this month. I can think of a dozen items between 10 and 50 million zeny that have had their values drop in half, but that's appropriate considering the droprates have doubled. Basically, there's no deflation - it's just inflation on the supply side. Expect prices to normalize after the spotlight ends.
Edited by belmarmaduk, 23 October 2014 - 07:57 AM.
