Lets talk about rarity and devaluation

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Winter event yay!!!!

New armor and helms yay
New mythic weapons yay
New craftable locked crates yay

But what does it all mean and how will it effect your in game experience

Firstly i would like to talk about "rarity"

This is rarity as defined by merriam webster

: a person or thing that is not common or usual : a person or thing that is not seen or does not happen often

: something that is valuable because there are few of its kind

: the quality of being rare

Ok so now that we know what it means, how does it affect us?

Well it affects the in game economy hugely due to something called supply and demand.
however that is a subject i will only briefly touch upon here.

Now lets talk for a moment about devaluation what is it?

This is devaluation defined by merriam webster

: an official reduction in the exchange value of a currency by a lowering of its gold equivalency or its value relative to another currency
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: a lessening especially of status or stature :

Ok so now we know what devaluation means lets put the two together and apply them to the current winter event announcement

New mythic weapons yay!!!! well kind of

Its only a yay for those people who do not currently own any mythic weapons, its actually bad news for current myth owners.... how so?

Because the less rare mythic items become, the less valueable they become.
(believe me, after the winter event is done mythic weapons will actually become more common than they already are haha)

So now that all of the mythic weapons have been devalued and every single mythic weapon owners items have depreciated in value
that translates to everyone who owns a mythic losing gold.

Ok so everyone loses gold equally whats the big deal????

Devaluation is intentionally happening. Think about it

If everyone loses gold then everyone will be forced to buy more plat to try and make that gold back.....
but with every lock that gets opened the items become worth less and less
therefore forcing you to use more plat to open more crates....for the same financial gain...than ever before in the past

The less items are worth that come out of locked, The more locked that would need to be opened to try and break even from before.......

Im not sure if i am explaining this the best way i can to make others understand and see what i see.

Conclusion: An intentional downward spiral created to promote more spending

Personally i feel new content should promote more spending.....but not by adding more and more and more of the same old content

Happy spending