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

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Giveitall wrote:

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SunL4D2 wrote:

Nevermind, he is just your friendly price fixer. :)

While I'm pretty sure you are right I am actually happy if it works. I will make quite some bank. Good thing if you just refused to trade your chaos and other currency in at those crazy ratios. :)

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Nukeleo wrote:

Crazy idea here, I know how it sounds but stay with me, but how about we just... stop using exalted orbs as a currency?

I mean like entirely remove them. Don't buy, don't sell. I don't remove them from the game, I mean stop caring about exalted orbs. Just measure everything in actually used currencies, like fusings and chaos, because people can easily gather those and judge effort-value effectively.

Exalted orbs only come from drops but chaos and fusings are mass produced via recipes. Does this change much? Not really, high value items will still be a LOT of chaos orbs in cost, but eventually things balance out better. Tippity top gear would likely be measured in exalts still, but there's still plenty of items measured in exalts that would be better off in other currencies.

IDK, the problem is that the rest of our currencies (excepting mirrors and blessed orbs) fluctuate in value relative to player activity due to their other methods of acquisition. It's like a fusing is a dime, a chaos orb is a quarter, a divine orb is a dollar, and exalted orbs are bits of gold. I mean yeah it has a lot of value, but while it's a valuable material that holds monetary value it's not traded like one.


"How does this fix price-fixing?" it doesn't but it makes trade generally healthier by cutting out the middle-men who flip exalted orbs. For the most part.

EDIT: forgot to say what we need is for a few major streamers to shed light on this issue to encourage people to price relative to chaos orbs or fusings or w/e instead of exalted orbs since that's a different kind of currency

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Nukeleo wrote:

Crazy idea here, I know how it sounds but stay with me, but how about we just... stop using exalted orbs as a currency?

I mean like entirely remove them. Don't buy, don't sell. I don't remove them from the game, I mean stop caring about exalted orbs. Just measure everything in actually used currencies, like fusings and chaos, because people can easily gather those and judge effort-value effectively.

Exalted orbs only come from drops but chaos and fusings are mass produced via recipes. Does this change much? Not really, high value items will still be a LOT of chaos orbs in cost, but eventually things balance out better. Tippity top gear would likely be measured in exalts still, but there's still plenty of items measured in exalts that would be better off in other currencies.

IDK, the problem is that the rest of our currencies (excepting mirrors and blessed orbs) fluctuate in value relative to player activity due to their other methods of acquisition. It's like a fusing is a dime, a chaos orb is a quarter, a divine orb is a dollar, and exalted orbs are bits of gold. I mean yeah it has a lot of value, but while it's a valuable material that holds monetary value it's not traded like one.


"How does this fix price-fixing?" it doesn't but it makes trade generally healthier by cutting out the middle-men who flip exalted orbs. For the most part.

EDIT: forgot to say what we need is for a few major streamers to shed light on this issue to encourage people to price relative to chaos orbs or fusings or w/e instead of exalted orbs since that's a different kind of currency