Originally Posted by OtAtOtomustam
If we are in agreement then that Platinum is more valuable than Gold. My conclusion: Elixirs should be purchased with Gold because it has less value than Platinum is also true.
You disregarded the last paragraph to my post. In order for your conclusion to be valid, it would have to be true 100% of the time. It isnt. If you have 3,000 platinum and only 50,000 gold, it would make better sense to buy with plat than gold.
The debate came from your original statement:
"regular plat-buyers will still buy elixirs for 4 plat to use them. If they buy them for gold, then they lost profit potential. 1 plat is worth 1,000 gold. 9-13,000 (price of a kit) gold = 9-13 plat. It's a better deal for them to buy with plat"
There is in no way profit potential lost. Profit potential is lost by making elixir purchases with Platinum as opposed to Gold, not the other way around. If we are looking at potential profit we have to look at factors such as inventory space (To hold bulk investment items such as vanities or locked crates), mule alts(Additional Investment Storage), Auction Slots (To unload quickly into the market while prices are at peak levels sometimes only for a few seconds), even opening Locked Crates. All these are diminished when someone who has Platinum and Gold and says to themselves "Its better for me to buy this elixir with Platinum than it is for me to purchase this with Gold"
Here is what i mean by a potential profit: Since plat can be converted into gold at 1:1,000, in order for the profit to be the same in both instances, a luck kit would have to be 4k in CS. So, here is the scenario:
If you buy a luck elixir for 4 platinum, and loot 4 locked crates during that 30 minute buff and sell them for ~44k, that would be 44k-4k (4 plat=4k gold) which would be a net profit of 40k.
If you buy a luck kit for 10,000 gold, and loot 4 locked crates during that 30 minute buff and sell them for ~44k, that would be 44k-10k, which would be a net profit of 34k.
My point is all things being equal IF these elixirs remain a permanent fixture, given their current market value it is in no way more beneficial to for a user to continue to purchase elixirs with Platinum when they have the option to do so with Gold. There is simply too much more value in Platinum.
In the end, the amount of gold you have determines your wealth. This statement is reinforced by the midas touch/goldfinger/filthy rich acheivements.