Phase 3: Profit !

When I start reading for Wow Economy, I found gems on Gevlon’s site.

Yes, sometime he takes on extremes, his wording is not nice, and not politically correct, as he put it. But to the point, he don’t hesitate to point out the right thing with the meanest word.

I like his thinking, most of them, I agreed.

Recently, he get to his cap, the limit by Blizzard, the great gold cap limit of 32bit integer. (or whatever meaning to the non-Computer geek). He consider to stop making money, therefore gaming, therefore blogging.  In this post

While I agreed with him most of the time before, I found there are quite lots of problem on his conclusion. And I bet he didn’t think clearly on that. (Shocked by the Gold Cap maybe?)
I have a list of thoughts on his post though…

1. If he doesn’t get guild invitation, it doesn’t means making money is worthless.
A guild takes many things to support, money is one of them. Human relationship is important too, I am not talking about helping those M&S but inter social networking. Money may not take over the whole thing, but it is still essential to a guild…
My point is, Even if the gold do not change a guild discussion that much, do not necessary means that his work is pointless.

2. Blogging is not essentially had to be WoW-related.
I know this is a wow-blog, but we do enjoy the
Working hours and rewards
Globalization trap
They are not wow-related, but with wow examples. Which help us wow-player understand clearly. The part I found most interesting on his post over other Wow-Economic post is his observation of the World around us.

3. Yes, you don’t owe us.
On the post, his said some commenter “demand” posts. in a sour tone. No, you never owe us post.

4. But. It’ll be a lost (to us) if you stop blogging.
I do believe Gevlon enjoy his writing, at least for most of the time.
And we enjoy reading them.
But isn’t that enough?

Side Note: It’s late when I read his post (Hong Kong Time). So may be I can’t organize clearly, but I do have those word in my mine.I had to put them up somewhere.

Change of name

No, Your link is not hijacked
I had change my blog name! previous known as Zekta’s Stuff!

[Start - boring background, skippable]
I was write a main blog, and here was some random thoughts dump..
But recently I found that I have more and more to say about WoW’s Trading here and many support from others.

The Name was Zekta’s Stuff, but it seems too generic and personal. So, I keep thinking about a new name for it.
[End - boring background]

So, I decided to hunt for a new name. While I am doing this, I find a new nice blog over

http://ahtrader.blogspot.com/2009/04/new-direction.html

by Marvco’s Suggestion. After reading his post, I got a sense “That’s also what I need to do too: Focus!”

Keep Focus!

Now, what I am going to do, Gevlon is really cool on the philosophy thinking on raid and market, Skrooge is good at all the fun stuff and encouraging discussion, and I won’t talk about Addon for sure.

What I excited me and get me interested, is the big question, Why?
There are reasons behind everything (Most of the time), and I am eager to find them out. It won’t be 100% of post here, since these topic is somewhat dull and hard to find(But I like it anyway).
I’ll try to pick once a week.

The Name, The Name

Here comes the hard part,

Most the great name had been taken, for instance (Goblin and Gnomish). I decided to use a catch phase of South park.
Phase 3, Profits

What Phase are we now?

What target of mine is to feel the gap on the big question mark, (of course it didn’t start at collect underpants)
Where is phase 1 and phase 2?
Where is Profits?
Why there are Profits?

that’s what I want to answer here.

Being Polite and Profits

What is the cost of being nice?

by “nice”, I mean talking politely, giving direction to others… Without costing much resources of your own

Most of the time, zero.
Well, sometimes it cost a lot. Since some people will abuse others on that, but then you can stop it right away, by an unshameful “NO”.

What is the cost of being bad/a jerk (Bad to others without any benefits)?
Alot.

If someone asking for direction in the the general/guild channel .
You can -

• Tell him the direction. – He or others may have an good impression of you
• Ignore him – not being nice but not being bad either. You just do not lose much other than “he/she is quiet”
• “You don’t even know that? NooB” – that’s a jerk. And people will ignore you when you ask for help or any request. That’s the price you pay

Being nice and polite is profitable.
And I had a recent experience on that.
The average “Sign Charter” Fee on my server is 5g-10g, depends which faction you’re on.
On a Saturday Afternoon, (Time of picking for the charter is important for creating your personal guild, See another post for details)
I urge to create my own guild for the “research” project
I ask around for 5g per person on sign up. 3 low level lowbies show up, so I paid 15g. and I had 7 persons to go,
but there are no more people coming

So instead I ask people come to me, I go to them

/hi
/whisper Would you mind signing this charter for me, please?

/thanks (if they sign)
/whisper Thank you

Then I got my charter filled in 15 minutes. That’s 35g straight. Better than many daily quest. What did it cost of doing so? Zero, other than walking around. Rewards? 35g saved in the pocket.

Being Nice is good to business.

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Updates,
While I wrote post a week or two ago, I put it into schedule.
(My guild for bank alt had been formed for 2 weeks now.)
Couple of thoughts appear on comment on several “post” on another site as well.
(I won’t talk about how similar that post’s topic with a post I had written before here, but that’s why I won’t mention their name here, cause I am still waiting their editor reply (for record, which is nothing yet, not even a general reply on “we had received your email”))

But even so, I guess it’s worth to mention that someone had the same thought on, being polite should able to pay for that dues.