This thread reminded me why I never look at the forums.. The day I decide to I see this lol....never seen so much crap pulled from one's booty

This post reminds me why some people have zero reason to post in public forums. Rather an discuss anything this user comes in here shit post says people are wrong because he says so an that literally it. Than let point out the fact that this is his first time ever posting on these forums.

This user's post reminds me of the people cohhcarnage laugh at in his channel. The ones who go into his twitch chat say a game he playing his bad an assumes the only reason he playing it is because he being paid to play it. Than cohh look at their chat history an points out how those users only ever posted once in his chat over the course of 6 years that his twitch chat existed. Like lol some people like to just make fools of themselves huh.

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Pearl items on market costs literal pocket change. You can just afk and you get more money from events than you will ever will be avalible to spend on pearl items in CM.

There is zero reason to not leave your 355M literal pocket change pre order.

Especially since even for gearing, the most efficient way is buying as much costume as you can, and melt them to crons, so dfq are you talking?

I can also boast about how much cash I make IRL, and while in NA sure people are rich, but in the third world EU, in the mayority of countries the avarage pleb make less money/hour than the value their silver/h would be in pearls, so guess...

Also even before elvira, lifeskillers literately shit money. You can buy how much outfit from one day bartering money? 2? 3? with what? near afk gamepaly lol...

On the contrary, value pack preorders is a good indicator for the part of the player base thats NOT active. This is based on multiple legitimate factors. Anyone actively playing would know that value pack preorders will most likely not go through and be ordering costumes or other items. 

Fewer than 10,000.  Not less.  I mean, just buy the VPs with pearls.  no big deal.

The amount of Value Packs or Costumes etc on preorder is an indicator of the amount of players playing the game.

If that number goes down, it means the population of the game is going down. 

How much is it down? Thats an entirely different question.

But down is down % are %

It's actually only 133M as you can only pre order 1 Pearl Shop item.  I was able to obtain about 1 in the last Year.  That's probably better than average.

I did appreciate some of the comments above

A Value Pack is only worth a few billion silver, who would bother bidding on them LOL.

When used properly a person should be moving at least 25B in product from the central market on top of gaining a loot scroll every day.  It would be reasonable to move even 100B+ as you could save up for months/years first.

You also typically don't want to dump 90 Ogre Rings or 90 Dist Earrings in a single day using the single day VP.

That would be correct to an extent.  If a VP is sold to an already inactive player it would just help show they where not playing.  If a player was active *case in point myself as an example* when I finally purchased a VP I put up another order.  If I wasn't logging in at all the pre-order number simply would have dropped.  There is only a limited amount of time I place orders on other items.

Also as a VP now has IMMENSELY more value due to the daily loot scrolls it's completely superior to all other items.  Any new active player should essentially have a VP order.  They may on occasion try for other items, pets, costumes etc, but in general those are limited and the masses will focus on VP.

For all the Nay Sayers

You do realize those are actual facts represented by data?  We already KNOW how many pre orders are on each item and the demand for them.  This isn't a complete guessing game ;)

Not talking about EU here, I know how fucked you guys are on prices.  The OP specifically mentioned NA and the number of pre orders trying to say why BDO was dying.  I was pointing out that the preorders have nothing to do with the population in NA due to the silver value of items being too high compared to hourly wage in NA.  

For instance 1 VP in NA is the same value as working 1 hour straight time at McDonalds.  I wouldn't call that "rich" more that the Conversion rate from EU to NA in abilty to buy pearls per hour worked, EU just gets fucked.  I think EU is paying too much for their pearls to begin with, which is why you don't have as many pearl items on the market.

EDIT:

As for the melting of costumes, I would hard disagree so would everyone enhancing for profits.  Croning pens is fine if you never plan on ever going for pen accessories, but if you plan on going for pen accessories then yes cron stones are useful.  If you never plan on going for Tri/Tet/Pen fallen god, then cronning to enhance is useful.

As for 355m on an outfit and let it sit.  I think you don't understand how fast those costume orders gets filled and when they get filled.  I realize in EU it can be 2-3 weeks before a costume gets filled, however in NA if you order the costume that is on sale, it gets filled within hours.

Actually, the OP didn't state an opinion about the health of the game, but rather raw data and facts.

It was only your own bias and insecurity that lead to you to make that statement ;)

Those numbers also only apply to NA while EU is probably similar or potentially higher given their pre-orders.  This doesn't count Sea, Xbox, as well as many other regions or consoles.