How come one exalted orb is worth 200 chaos right now?

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Aldonés wrote:

Let us step back and look at this logically. RMT farmers prioritize selling exalted orbs. Buying off the market reduces supply while the demand stays the same, jacking up the price. Jacking up the in-game price makes people more likely to turn to alternative methods (RMT) as well as increasing the RMT value. I could say it increases their stock, but lets face it, they get more than enough from botting.

GGG bans bots by the hundreds, thousands, ten thousands? We don't really know, but based off various complaints from actual players getting banned for botting, I doubt most bots last more than 24 hours. The problem is a smart person can script just about anything. Script generating an email (very easy if they own their own server), script generating an account/character, script leveling, script obtaining MF gear, script low level maps.

Basically, they can probably with 1 click create a bot to play nonstop until GGG bans the account. Spread out the wealth among various mule accounts, and you now can have thousands of accounts directing profit to you for little to no effort.

Now look at it from GGG's perspective. It took the farmer all of 2 seconds to create an account. That's 1800 accounts an hour and dozens of farmers. GGG's algorithms have to detect, verify, and ban accounts. This takes time so that legitimate accounts aren't accidentally targeted. While technically a bannable offense, GGG wouldn't last long if they banned everyone who ever once created a multi-flask macro.

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TheFazzo wrote:

RMT will always exist but what can you do about it apart from not buying currency for real money?

Unfortunately there are some people who are willing to invest real money on a game advantage. They ruin the game for everybody including themselves but they won't stop because they think it's convenient.

What you can do is to report bots whenever you can.

Anyway you cannot exclude that even without bots the price of exalts would be the same because of supply and demand. If something, bots probably inject in the system more currency that was meant to be (chaos but also exalts) thus cheapening all currency at the same time. You can't just attribute to bots this phenomenon because as absurd it may seem they may have a neutral impact on the economy if they just inject more of all currency in the system.