this whole companion cube business...

[imported_some_guy]

Is anyone else kind of annoyed by this whole companion cube inflation?

It seems like one day a small group of the very wealthy players just decided that companion cubes were going to be worth a lot of mana and everyone else went along with it. Not only that, but some of these players have been banned (strongly suggesting that they were hacking and obtaining the cubes by illegitimate means).

So, they buy up all the cubes (perhaps not even by legitimate means), tell everyone that they're worth a ton of mana, now huge inflation sets in since it is now possible to store that kind of mana (since they tell everyone companion cubes are worth over 100 tokens, you just went to being able to store 30 - 50x the amount of mana since everyone just blindly accepts it). Now people that just farm their mana from survival generally wont be able to trade in the very high end items because they don't collect arbitrary items that someone decided was worth a lot. A really nice piece of armor that might have went for 15 - 30 billion or so now goes for 100 billion or more because of these cubes.

I have seen items go for more mana than you can physically store if you just use 1 billion mana tokens built into the game, all because some arbitrary item is declared to be worth a lot by a few players.

What's also dumb is that they're somehow worth less if they're upgraded. If they're being strictly used as currency based on their scarcity then that shouldn't matter. When I go into a store, I don't have to pay more for something if my dollar bills that I use are creased or have smudges on them.

Anyways, I pretty much avoid buying things from the trading forums so this doesn't really effect me. I just think the whole thing is stupid.

/endrant

[Cure]

I own multiple cubes and I never got the point of using them since they are only worth like 2 billion. In my opinion you should just stick with straight up mana tokens but whatever if people want to accept cubes as their payment it works for me.

[GOKUPP]

Good points!

This happens with real life as well some jerk says this is worth more because..... And like moths to a flame the masses chant yes master!

Now pristine bills are worth more to a collector just as if that toy is sealed in its original flawless package.

Yet circulated money is circulated money. Condition is a mute point with the exception of error notes and coins.

Since The cubes come with LOCKED minimum and maximum stats and over 90 percent of players up grade the attack and the I think it was 1 attack rate upgrade they are all the same damned thing.

As long as i didn't print it my self a hundred dollar bill is a hundred dollar bill!

[EternalWinters]

Why I just don't mess with Player Shops. I just play survival, collect my mana and hope I find some good stuff.

[ReaPxKinG]

I never sold or bought a cube. My cube will think badly of me T-T

[Grim indeed]

100 tokens? 600mil ones? 60,000,000,000? thats ridiculous... as a pet its outclassed by chicken/djinnlet/genie
may consider selling mine now >.> <.<

[Cure]

100 tokens? 600mil ones? 60,000,000,000? thats ridiculous... as a pet its outclassed by chicken/djinnlet/genie
may consider selling mine now >.> <.<

People are saying they are worth 100 - 150b tokens...

[Rand0m1zat10n]

100 tokens? 600mil ones? 60,000,000,000? thats ridiculous... as a pet its outclassed by chicken/djinnlet/genie
may consider selling mine now >.> <.<

Aha.. No. Sorry.

1 token always = 200mil.

[KionaCaldera]

Current price for a cube is about 30b = 150 tokens of 200m

I have never understood the whole cube thing. So, I don't use them as currency. If I do accept it, I sell it ASAP to get the real mana from it to take advantage of how much they say it is worth. However, I think we are seeing inflation due to the new mana tokens. It now takes 600m to make a 600m token instead of the 2-3 times as much like it did before. As a result, there is more mana available than before. Combine that with the new super loot and we have outrageous prices. The cubes don't help.

[Andy]

Current price for a cube is about 30b = 150 tokens of 200m

I have never understood the whole cube thing. So, I don't use them as currency. If I do accept it, I sell it ASAP to get the real mana from it to take advantage of how much they say it is worth. However, I think we are seeing inflation due to the new mana tokens. It now takes 600m to make a 600m token instead of the 2-3 times as much like it did before. As a result, there is more mana available than before. Combine that with the new super loot and we have outrageous prices. The cubes don't help.

To some people it's 200 tokens. put a WTA thread and you might get that much.