From google translate of tencent qq news: smilegate CEO attributing 800k concurrent players to success of valtan release

You can't be fucking serious, the crystals to gold rate is supply and demand between one player to another, that's all it is. The fact that you're spending $$ on gold shows you want gold, well the player who has gold also likes having their gold, that's why they don't accept super low offers for it.

The fact that people are turning to bots because they out compete players because they are fucking robots and they aren't earning the gold legitimately with hours of grinding like actual human players are doing just goes to show that the people buying the gold are selfish assholes who are willing to destroy the game in response to not liking where supply and demand has settled in regards to the player to player exchange. There's no fucking justification for going to bots, if you don't like the ratio that supply and demand has set, then obviously that means maybe you don't buy gold, you think players are overly thrilled with these rates either? People feel like shit when they gotta spend 600 gold for 95 blue crystals just to use those crystals on not even enough pheons for 1 accessory. Everyone needs gold.

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