100768-why-are-people-spending-real-money-on-credd

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			When you get so little platinum when you sell it? Serious question because I am curious since it doesn't seem all that worth it.	
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			Well, it's worth it to them. They have excess cash, and possibly not much time to play the game, and want some plat. There seem to be enough of them. It takes all sorts.	
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			Because some people have more money IRL than they need, and less time to farm in the game.  So they spend $20 to get 5 plat instead of spending hours farming for it.	
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To some people it might be though. It all depends on how the buyer personally values their $20. If they think $20 for 4p (or whatever it is on the server) is worth it, then they'll do it. Some people feel like $20 is worth 80p at least, and won't buy or sell until then. Some people think $20 is NEVER worth it.
 
People put different values on their RL money. :) It usually has to do with how much effort it takes them to make $20 vs how much effort it takes them to make plat.	
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Because they have real money and want plantinum?
 
IIRC is started at 10g, and since the launch time, has risen to the current level.  At this point, enough people are buying CREDD and selling them for 6p to supply the people willing to buy at 6p.  So people obviously belong to both groups.
 
It's just supply and demand.	
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To some people it might be though. It all depends on how the buyer personally values their $20. If they think $20 for 4p (or whatever it is on the server) is worth it, then they'll do it. Some people feel like $20 is worth 80p at least, and won't buy or sell until then. Some people think $20 is NEVER worth it.
 
People put different values on their RL money. :) It usually has to do with how much effort it takes them to make $20 vs how much effort it takes them to make plat.
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			If you make $100 an hour, then 1 CREDD costs about 12 minutes of youf time.  It takes 1 hour to farm about 1 plat.  So, selling 1 CREDD for 2 plat is saving you about 108 minutes of time.	
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WHY ARE PEOPLE SPENDING REAL MONEY ON CREDD?
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When you get so little platinum when you sell it? Serious question because I am curious since it doesn't seem all that worth it.
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Because they don't accept monopoly money .... I offered, but nope.
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I was a bit of a housing junky, and although I could have made plat pretty easily if I had invested in auction trading and professions earlier, I was too preoccupied with hitting 50th and working on my home. And that's when the spending began...
 
I've spent about 60-70 hours working on my plot, and it's cost about 20 plat to build. Now, my creative style is to get really, really invested into something, and so I was putting in 10 hour stretches daily for about a week. Some of this went to farming dailies for gold and being neighbourly, but most of it went to just building. I could easily sit on my plot staring at something, easing it or tweaking it, for 30-60 minutes. That left very little time to get out and seriously farm the gold I was needing. And breaking my creative immersion just wasn't an option at the time.
 
The result? I would be working on something, run out of gold, and go buy CREDD. Sell it, get back to work. Continue doing dailies when I was up to it, but eventually got sick of them, and dropped the idea altogether. Back to housing, work work work, run out of gold, buy CREDD.
 
In the end I've sunk about $140 dollars in CREDD. Was it worth it? Hell yes. I absolutely love my plot, and consider the real money spent the cost of creating art in Wildstar. That might sound a little too pretentious but that's how I feel. :D
 
https://forums.wildstar-online.com/forums/index.php?/topic/91069-600-item-interior-design-evindra-arcology-crime-mall/?hl=crime+mall
 
I've completely revised the outside area since, and am hoping to post a video soon. Just trying to find someone who's able to do the capture, since I keep getting screen tears and lag when I try. :(	
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I was a bit of a housing junky, and although I could have made plat pretty easily if I had invested in auction trading and professions earlier, I was too preoccupied with hitting 50th and working on my home. And that's when the spending began...
 
I've spent about 60-70 hours working on my plot, and it's cost about 20 plat to build. Now, my creative style is to get really, really invested into something, and so I was putting in 10 hour stretches daily for about a week. Some of this went to farming dailies for gold and being neighbourly, but most of it went to just building. I could easily sit on my plot staring at something, easing it or tweaking it, for 30-60 minutes. That left very little time to get out and seriously farm the gold I was needing. And breaking my creative immersion just wasn't an option at the time.
 
The result? I would be working on something, run out of gold, and go buy CREDD. Sell it, get back to work. Continue doing dailies when I was up to it, but eventually got sick of them, and dropped the idea altogether. Back to housing, work work work, run out of gold, buy CREDD.
 
In the end I've sunk about $140 dollars in CREDD. Was it worth it? Hell yes. I absolutely love my plot, and consider the real money spent the cost of creating art in Wildstar. That might sound a little too pretentious but that's how I feel. :D
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			I dunno but atleast it allowed me to unsubbed while I wait on the next Patch.	
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I think after that post you owe us some pictures of your housing plot! lol
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			The time it would take to farm plat is more valuable than the $20. I'd rather be doing other things. It's my reason for doing it at least.	
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If you are not doing vet dungeons/raids you have no idea how much gold you can burn through from runes, boosts, and dyes.
 
People don't want to spend time farming gold or they make make more per hour than you.	
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Pretty much this ^
 
A lot of raiders do it because... the easiest/best pre-raid gear is crafted.
Crafted gear costs gold, and nothing else.
Run out of gold? Buy some more with CREDD and farm that crafted gear for those fire/fusion rune slots you wanted.
 
Voila! Ready to raid!	
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I'm just gonna throw this out there, and I might take a lot of heat from fellow miners, but... join a mining circle (or five.) Literally, the money you make doing the rounds and either vendoring or selling the ores on CX will make you many plat in very little time. I make about 2 plat in one full run of four circles, selling galac ore for 22 silver to a guy regularly. It's not instant cash, but it's steady income.
 
For CREDD there will always be people who want to buy it for the in-game bump. Some people just really like spending money on games! There are actually people who feel GREAT just for spending money (and I am one of them, though I am very fervent in not spending lots on video games.) Something I enjoy about Wildstar is that right now CREDD is easily accessible to purchase with in-game funds, and so I'm stockpiling it for now. I believe holding assets (especially ones which hope to appreciate) is always better than holding liquid cash.
 
So yeah. If you want to buy some CREDD and have some game time on hand, go for it! If you want to buy it and have plat on hand, go for it! If you want nothing to do with it, that's fine too!	
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			Cause they can?	
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I'm just gonna throw this out there, and I might take a lot of heat from fellow miners, but... join a mining circle (or five.) Literally, the money you make doing the rounds and either vendoring or selling the ores on CX will make you many plat in very little time. I make about 2 plat in one full run of four circles, selling galac ore for 22 silver to a guy regularly. It's not instant cash, but it's steady income.
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If people didn't spend real money on CREDD then there would be none on the market to purchase for plat.
 
Unless I'm completely missing something here.	
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I work 54 hours a week, and thats not even counting the time I spend driving to work and back home again (about 30 minutes each) and time I spend with other activities.
Any time I'm spending inside the game and not doing anything that I enjoy is time I consider wasted.
Farming/grinding for progress (be it heroics for equipment, challenges for dyes, workorders for vouchers) is something I gladly put up with, farming just to get the money to keep those activities running is not.
 
Also, the 17€ for the credd are roughly a hour of work-time.
Farming the 7p50g it costs on my server would take far longer.	
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Because Bitcoins!
 	
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			Hey, I don't mind philanthropists in my MMO.	
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If you make $100 an hour, then 1 CREDD costs about 12 minutes of youf time.  It takes 1 hour to farm about 1 plat.  So, selling 1 CREDD for 2 plat is saving you about 108 minutes of time.
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Blow a chunk of RL molla and buy your way to the top is what it's all about.
 
You can spend 1000s of hours grinding in game OR simply work for a few hours at a job and get all that with a few button presses instead.
 
Now, pop quiz: which one of those is far far FAR faster, saves a ton of time, and is much easier?
 
*working as intended*	
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			I don't condone it, but I forgot to mention this: you can buy gold from gold sellers for cheaper. About $20 for 20 platinum. Again, I am not condoning it, but I figured most people would just do that if they wanted ingame money and had spare real life money to spend.	
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I don't condone it, but I forgot to mention this: you can buy gold from gold sellers for cheaper. About $20 for 20 platinum. Again, I am not condoning it, but I figured most people would just do that if they wanted ingame money and had spare real life money to spend.
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I don't condone it, but I forgot to mention this: you can buy gold from gold sellers for cheaper. About $20 for 20 platinum. Again, I am not condoning it, but I figured most people would just do that if they wanted ingame money and had spare real life money to spend.
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I thought it was legal and Carbine said they wouldn't punish players who bought gold?
 
 
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Naw, I think most people will take the legal option that does not fund cybercriminals who hack accounts and ruin the game experience for everyone else, as long as the payoff isn't too much worse.
 
(But hey, yeah, some people are immoral scum, or those sellers would be out of business already.)
 
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I thought it was legal and Carbine said they wouldn't punish players who bought gold?
 
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