Originally Posted by
Eric
I agree with Psyren on this one, the problem is that one person, Mephisto, controls literally all of the gold gifting, and that's not technically a problem for the server, its a problem for the trading market and other players trying to get gold for things, it just doesn't happen. So the market is swayed one direction, toward that single person.
In my opinion, there needs to be a system where gold gifting is available maybe once a week, not unlike the voting system where it's once a day. Just a longer timeframe. And with that, maybe promote it instead of having one person going around saying "I take gold!" And everyone else being confused and unsure if that's even a thing.
Now I agree with you, Alex, and joe about the fact that it supports the sever, but the sever can't just be about how to maintain it financially, there has to be other aspects that go into "a business," now I realize that isn't something you're interested in, but that's really what it is here, and there's nothing wrong with that, but when a business is being run, everything must be accounted for, and with a Diablo 2 server, trading is a big part of it.
TL;DR version, gold gifting needs to be addressed.