+1 $15 is $15 dollars. but saying "1500g is $15 & therefore an accent being priced @ 1500g is scummy" is ridiculous. 1500g skins aren't the problem. people pay that & more all the time, and the USD price to purchase 1500g isn't the true "value" of any given 1500g, because there's no Legitimate way to turn gems back into dollars. flipping other people's 500g accents for 1500g en masse is the part that edges into scummy territory. there's "natural price increase over time," & then there's "immediate reselling for ten times the initial price." regardless, nothing about reselling and/or its morality has anything to do with how an artist prices their own art.
Yeah I agree I think nonnies up thread were conflating someone flipping a bunch of skins with someone setting high prices for their own UMAs, which is two different things. 15kg is also less valuable than $15 for sure, calling it the equivalent was honestly generous. Can I use it to buy McChicken? (Call me if you want to trade 15kg for McChicken)
I'm getting flashbacks to the person that had a tantrum on SMR about an artist setting high prices and limited slots for a skin run a few months ago, and how it was so mean and immoral of the artist to not dedicate hours of gametime to managing bigger spreadsheets and fulfilling tons of cheap orders. How dare they have limited slots for a skin other people were willing to pay for!
just to clarify, people were picking $15 USD as the equivalent to 1,500 gems because $20 USD gets you around 2,000 gems/2kg (2150 gems, to be exact). the $100 USD pack gets you 11,500 gems. so 15kg would run you $150 USD. given that, i'd buy a whole nuclear family a round of McChickens in return for 15kg :P
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Re: G1 Imps - Ysdaar
(Anonymous) 2023-08-03 02:39 am (UTC)(link)$15 is $15 dollars.
but saying "1500g is $15 & therefore an accent being priced @ 1500g is scummy" is ridiculous.
1500g skins aren't the problem. people pay that & more all the time, and the USD price to purchase 1500g isn't the true "value" of any given 1500g, because there's no Legitimate way to turn gems back into dollars.
flipping other people's 500g accents for 1500g en masse is the part that edges into scummy territory. there's "natural price increase over time," & then there's "immediate reselling for ten times the initial price."
regardless, nothing about reselling and/or its morality has anything to do with how an artist prices their own art.
Re: G1 Imps - Ysdaar
(Anonymous) 2023-08-03 06:20 am (UTC)(link)I'm getting flashbacks to the person that had a tantrum on SMR about an artist setting high prices and limited slots for a skin run a few months ago, and how it was so mean and immoral of the artist to not dedicate hours of gametime to managing bigger spreadsheets and fulfilling tons of cheap orders. How dare they have limited slots for a skin other people were willing to pay for!
Re: G1 Imps - Ysdaar
(Anonymous) 2023-08-04 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)the $100 USD pack gets you 11,500 gems. so 15kg would run you $150 USD.
given that, i'd buy a whole nuclear family a round of McChickens in return for 15kg :P
Re: G1 Imps - Ysdaar
(Anonymous) 2023-08-04 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)