EXALTED ORB Price Shenanigans [Delirium] 127:1 What is even going on?

That's just what c/ex is worth. 90c/ex, 180c/ex makes no difference.

I don't understand how bots are inflating exalt prices. Arnt they farming exalt cards? Shouldn't that devaluate exalt prices?

They farm chaos, which devalues chaos and makes exalts look more expensive.

But they run act 3 for the 2 ex per 10 card? Hmm I guess chaos also drop

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Shagsbeard wrote:

They farm chaos, which devalues chaos and makes exalts look more expensive.

This.
For anyone remembering Incursion league in summer 2018, I believe GGG announced they struck down hard on botters and the day after the prices of exalted orbs nose dived from aprox 160c/ex to 70-80C/ex. For those saying bots does not influence the market, wrong. I believe the same will happen this time around as well.

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Shagsbeard wrote:

They farm chaos, which devalues chaos and makes exalts look more expensive.

They are buying exalts at any price because something is better than nothing and this is exactly what they will get if their bot is banned which happens surprisingly often.

Bots are farming exalts and buying exalts for any other currency but sell exalts onlt for cash. This way exalts to chaos/random currency ratio is through the roof but chaos to random currency ratios stay pretty much the same.

Just check the sell/buy ratios of exalts. Bots are actually buying exalts at 152-155c when people are actually selling them at 150c each.

Yup its not so much what bots are farming as what they are buying.

Don't forget about the league racers though, they manipulate THE FUCK out of the economy on their way to 100 or w/e the race goal is.

Then there are the flippers, who vigilently stop any underpriced items from surviving more than 5 seconds on trade sites, if they even have time to pop up. Simply buying the cheapest items then immediately relisting them forces the price up a few chaos each day.

Once the playerbase hits critical mass (i.e. most are in maps generating raw chaos significantly faster than storyline) it snowballs.

A week from now it'll hit 180c/ex, then a wave of bot bans causes the infinite demand to drop off, the supply from players suddenly is higher than demand (with bot demand removed) people panic because things arent selling instantly and start to undercut each other.

Then it crashes, to stabilize a week or so later. It's predictable now to the point you can mark it on your calendar before the league even starts.

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xMustard wrote:

shut the fuck up

there, i said it.
is there any way i can block this thread from ever appearing to my eyes?


look, i don't doubt bots exist. certainly they do. but there is no way they are the primary driver of economy and prices. no fucking chance at all. this is as bad as the russian collusion thing

THEY ARE
I ahve work colegues that , while doing their shifts, they ahve a special build pc machine just for botting, with cloned windows and more, just for poe
One dude raked in 4k bucks in a month just from this, their bot army gets banned once every 4-5 months
The game IS PLAGUED with bots

Ex went from 92c to 153c in 7 days, it's around the same price as it was at this time in Betrayal.

This will always be the price ex gets to unless they find some way to stop bots, which we all know isn't going to happen.

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Vertal0 wrote:

Ex went from 92c to 153c in 7 days, it's around the same price as it was at this time in Betrayal.

It's not though.

> This will always be the price ex gets to unless they find some way to stop bots, which we all know isn't going to happen.

Yes.