'Gold Sink' idea

[Bundlos]

EVENT ENERGY KITS

It’s an item that gets used in massive amounts during events, especially leaderboard events. The idea is to scrap tradeable event energy kits for platinum and introduce them in non-tradeable, use-only single pieces and stacks from event NPC or the store that would only have validity for the duration of the event. Let’s put a price tag of 50k/per piece for the sake of this discussion. Before jumping to any conclusions and over-reacting just try to understand this from the perspective of a gold sink.

Pros:

Gold sink in the real sense: There would be no movement of gold from Player A to Player B. Gold used to purchase these kits will just be lost for good.

Popularity: For people running a leaderboard event, event kits are one of the most used items, so imagine the amount of gold that will get sunk if this were to be. It would in the least sink an approx amount of 100m each from at least 30 players running for top 10. Also having them available for cost-friendly rates would only encourage more to be bought and used even if you are not running for leaderboard.

Time-saving: If it were to happen, energy kits would be available at a click-away, no more having to go through the hassle of finding sellers who sell energy in bulk.

Cons:

Energy kit merchants: Loss of one avenue for merchants for plat-to-gold conversion.

STS: Loss of one avenue of making money from plat purchases used to buy those kits.

Plat users would still have crate keys, limited edition event store vanities, pet eggs, elite awakening gems, elixirs (both event and non-event specific) for their plat-to-gold conversion. But if it makes anybody unhappy, the middle ground is to have such a mechanism for every alternate event. This implies: one event with tradeable kits (with plat) will be followed by the next event with limited validity non-tradeable kits (with gold) and repeat.

SIR SPENDSALOT UPDATE:

10k chests: Those chests could use an update with three more fresh weapon vanities, something enticing enough to make us gamble for them.

Bound vanity: The highest so far is 25m in bound vanity, it could use some new ones for maybe 50m, 100m, and 150m. A one-time gold sink but a gold sink nevertheless. Also has to be enticing enough for people to want to buy them.

I just thought this would make for a great gold sink. All we ever talk about is buff and nerf gold loot, but never really about effective gold sinks measures. Any feedback is appreciated as long as it is constructive.