MasterVG71782 said:
Yeah, I wasn't much of a celebrity in EQOA (Everquest Online Adventures is the name of the PS2 one), since I played on one of the lesser known servers (there were only 6 servers). I did have a fairly large group of friends, though, since I used to have them always asking me to help/group with them. I did have A LOT of fun with my Enchanter on EQOA, although I went down the lesser of the two paths for them. |
I was one of Hibernia's battle leader on the Bors server in DaOC, organizing and leading relic defense and attack .
In SWG I was THE major armosmith of the Valcyn server and rich like crazy. It was so bad that this is the only time in a MMORPG that I actually sold credit for cash ( I made around 4000$ selling 400 millions credit. I had over 1 billion credit left after that and resources valuated around 3-5 billion credits, I made some happy people when I left by donating the resources ( and it became worthless 6 months later when they changed the whole crafting mechanism).
At my peak if I had gone heavilly into it I could have made 1k$/week just from selling credits as I was pulling in around 150 million-200 millions credits/week ( but had to reinvest some on resources). That woudn't have lasted though as change between credit/cash went down a lot a few months after I stopped selling credits as people started leaving the game...
To most players 10 million credits was a lot and I believe there were only 5-6 players with more than 500 millions credits..
I remember getting into a betting war with the top weaponsmith for a very rare rifle and I won the bid with 180 millions credits, Never thought about it at the time but it was like paying 1800$ for a virtual weapon as I could have sold the credits instead...( that's actually when i stopped selling credits as my buyers wanted to buy 500 millions right after that and my cash was down to that amount and I didn't want to be cashless).
Basically I was like Bill Gates on the server and let me tell you I was taking advantage of it ...( my house was like the Playboy's mansion lol)
The funny thing is that I made my fortune my mass producing armor much better than any had done before and for a lot cheaper price ( so suddenly a lot of players were able to afford to purchase armor and they sure did).