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Not at the moment, we'll provide an update soon.
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Devblog: The Conversion Stone
By [Ankama]WAKFU - ADMINISTRATOR - July 09, 2019, 15:00:00With Update 1.64, we're giving the community a new feature called "Conversion Stone". It lets players exchange Ogrines for Kamas and vice versa.
Q&A
We wanted to make this option available to you because we think it's an honest way of responding to two things the community asks for again and again:
- Accessing all paying services and content in the store without paying with real money.
- Legally getting kamas without upsetting the in-game economy.
Offering players a legal and secure platform to carry out these exchanges allows us to respond to these two requests without harming the in-game balance (nothing is generated – it is only exchanges between players).
How It Works
The different steps:
- You can buy a Conversion Stone in the Shop for €5.
- This stone can be sold for kamas (at the in-game Shop). The seller chooses the sale price in kamas.
- When a player buys a Conversion Stone using kamas, their account is credited with 2,500
(linked)Ogrines that they can spend in the Shop, if desired.
Restrictions
- To buy a Conversion Stone in the Shop, your account must be certified.
- There are no restrictions for buying a Conversion Stone in exchange for kamas.
Additional Information
- An average price is calculated and displayed for Conversion Stones.
- A Conversion Stone put up for sale can be withdrawn from sale by its owner (for example, to adjust its price).
- When a Conversion Stone is bought in exchange for kamas, it cannot be sold again; the ogrines are automatically credited to the account after buying the Conversion Stone.
Roll-out and Availability
This feature will be available for three months starting shortly after Update 1.64 is released.
At the end of this time, Conversion Stones that were bought will not be lost. They will be usable and exchangeable in the game for an unlimited time.
We aren't ruling out doing this again, albeit with a few changes if needed.
Q&A
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Why Can't Conversion Stones Be Bought Using Ogrines?
We want to avoid current ogrine stocks influencing Conversion Stone transactions.
This is a precautionary principle for the launch of this new feature. We aren't ruling out lifting this restriction eventually.
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Why Didn't You Offer an Ogrine Exchange Similar to the One in DOFUS?
We wanted to experiment with a streamlined system for exchanging ogrines for kamas.
Therefore, we made the decision to give you a different system.
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Why Not Sell Kamas Directly?
If we were to sell kamas directly, we'd risk significantly destabilizing how the in-game economy works by creating excessive inflation that would gradually make kamas lose value.
By offering an inter-player exchange system, we're ensuring that we won't generate any additional kamas and, therefore, that we won't disrupt the in-game economy.
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"If we were to sell kamas directly, we'd risk significantly destabilizing how the in-game economy works by creating excessive inflation that would gradually make kamas lose value.
By offering an inter-player exchange system, we're ensuring that we won't generate any additional kamas and, therefore, that we won't disrupt the in-game economy."
this is exactly what it's gonna do, mess with the in-game economy, people who can afford a bunch of this stone will just be able to sell them for kama, no there wont be generated more kama ingame, but the weight of who actually has kama will be shifted towards the same people that has actual money, aka. pay to win. no, you're not creating inflation, instead, you create deflation, the value of kama is gonna skyrocket if a single (or multiple) "ogrine tycoon" owns the majority of the available kama. THIS IS JUST AS BAD (for example Great Depression 1929)
So, basically one stone = 5 € = 2.500 linked Ogrines on stone consuming? Well, sounds like we might see undercuttings among stone providers. No buy for reselling here.
5 € is quite low value as to cause monopolization of stones. I hardly foresee any stone hoarding problem by a single player here. Now, time to check what's in store with Ogrines...
>New update that push hard grind to get the best results hit the live server.
>Few days later system that allow you spend $ to get kamas to make grind easier is released.
But for sure Wakfu will earn a lot of cash on it, I hope it will be used well to support wakfu team and improve our Wakfu expiriance in next patches.
GG... i think 100% mines areas will be "bots" or can't mining propably
Not at the moment, we'll provide an update soon.
[Flatops]
Cash grab, plain and simple
This kind of items are implemented in other MMORPGs too and it is very easy to become a millonaire in-game. You can jump from 0 kamas to millions in a few days. More money in the game also can, in some instances, traslate into Higher Prices. It un-balances the economy. Also the price of the stone will go higher and higher, specially once it is removed from the store. For example, on Runescape there is a similar item that started selling for 3-4 millions the first days and now is worth 20m, because the demand is high and, it is in theory, "free"
So, good for the players but might be not so good for the economy. It might come in handy to easily get Kamas to roll your items after the enchantment update tho.