State of Era Trade

[PermaBanned]

Hello, I am PermaBanned, or better known simply as "Banned" from the guild Cuz.

I have been playing Graal Classic since 2009, and played Era since 2010/2011 (I forgot). Fair to say I am a far older player than many of the ones currently playing.


I have been trading for quite a while; it has been the only part of the game I enjoyed for a while. I ended up hustling 420k trochus by the time I quit, and had a sharp turn in profits. I started with clover and quit many times during my trading, but always came back better than before.



Never the less, I am here to talk about Era Trade, and the past and now current state of it.

The Roots

I was there when trade tables first opened. I had only a few noob rares I amassed before when scamming was rampant and you could drop items. Trading at this time was soon owned by a guild named, "Beta," who are best known now as people who harassed the now actual traders and the people who traded after they all quit. They as well were fairly all rich, and many of which were Arabs. They as well went to auctions to become wealthy and rather were not known for being good traders. They earned their fortunes from USD or digging.

The Graal Depression

Any of the old players know this well. Graal definitely had a depression when items were getting traded. This is partly because of the first development of tro becoming the universal shell and currency. Everyone wanted trochus, and people were dropping every item that was being added to the game. Every single time something came to the game, people would surround the new owner and drop its price to something mere. This continued for YEARS.

In fact, this is regarded as the time when trading was hard to do. It was near impossible. Everyone tried to rip the other off and no one took risks. Items would drop half price for no reason and the owners would all leave the trade. It was extremely tough and only the very smart were able to progress. This is where you see traders such as Mun, Mistik, Sarah, Panda, Goon, Oakland, Flab, iPlayer slowly gaining fortunes through smart choices (given Goon definitely scammed don't get me wrong).

Growth was extremely slow at these times. And throughout the months you would see extremely little growth. It was honestly amazing how Flab was able to gain so much during his rather small time trading; that was near unheard of during the time. Many people could not do that.


This pretty much lasted for four years. It made a lot of smart traders, but caused MANY too quit. I myself remember joining a ton of trade guilds which ended up disbanding, because everyone in it became broke or/and quit. As well, scamming was rampant and still is.

Now

Trading has became dumbed down now to the point where everyone could do it. There are players who I would regard as having lower IQs than a fish who are becoming extremely rich. And what are they during, what are these next generation of traders doing? They are making all the older ones quit. And this is definitely prevalent. I have seen amazing traders such as Diablo, Sarah, Almost all of Cuz, Almost all of GodWings, Rhines, MisTik, Panda all quit trade. This is happening folks; soon the game will be ruled by these prepubescent 12 year olds who know nothing better than trolling and make some of the most idiotic trades known to date. And it is beyond me, the market has went in a sad and unintelligible tangent. There are people who cannot even pronounce words correctly, WORDS, getting rich off of this market. I feel like half of these new traders were born after 2010. There is no "gain" or "drive" in this game now. It is overrun by many of players who simply do not care about playing and instead have a freak obsession with USDing for supers.

And what are the PRs doing to help trade? Nothing. We have Mun become and admin and he has does NOTHING to help our case (which is why many are unhappy with him). There are plenty of things that could be made such as a teleport become start and other trade tables. But, it seems like trade tables which make up a massive amount of this game are being overlooked by staff

Why I made this?

Simple. Trade has went to hell along with the poor PR this game has to offer. I don't think any type of administration system should exist where players can be randomly gagged by these 15 year old PRs who hide cloaked. It is honestly pathetic, and there is no feeling of justice, because you can't get back at the admin or report them because you can't see them. It is completely unfair. I will be happy for the complete utter removal of cloak and an option to appeal your jail if you are jailed.

Bottom line, the PR is this game are worthless and along with this over-restrictive straight-jacket the chat censor is. Please fix it.

TL;DR

This game has went to hell and so has its PR. Everyone has been quitting and I don't blame em. We have dead space at start who have nothing better to do than waste their phone's alkaline battery for more hours. We have traders quitting left and right. We have a terrible PR staff that knows nothing better than cloaking and gagging people.