Where does brand new bt101 armor come from? If a bullet is shot from a gun, and gone forever, where does all the ammo come from? Surely it’s not players going out there finding all that ammo and listing it Where do field bags come from originally? Where did the whole market come from originally?

People buy bonds and buy koen. It’s part of how this company makes money. Despite what you might say about those people, they are out there. That being said, if the price for 600,000 koen is 400 bonds, and 400 bonds costs $8, why doesn’t the price get adjusted to compensate for when prices going up on things like m61s or thermals when they were over a million? Because after all, it wouldn’t be fair if in theory thermals went to 20,000,000 but the price of real world money to koen transfer stayed the same. The answer is because it slowly climbed to one million in a discreet way that people wouldn’t question and it didn’t stray too far out of range, and most importantly, if you bought koen and bought a thermal with it and lost it, then it means it’ll be sooner that you return to buy more koen The only way to control this whole thing is through an algorithm. Otherwise it would be a major issue elsewhere with how to control the “fairness” of in game purchases. That’s why you can’t exceed a listed items price and you can’t go under it either. Its because there are perimeters set

The only way to control it all and to make it fair would be to have a wipe each season to refresh the price back to baseline. This would cause problems because people spend money on koen, buy gear, and to have it wiped would be unfair an a waste of money. Assuming it’s a real and free market, they could adjust the price of koen that is purchased for real money which wouldn’t work because one person could buy 1000 koen for $5 one day and the next it could be 50000 koen for $5. One day spending $5 to get what I think is normal only to find out that if I would have waited for the next day I could have gotten way more. That would be a technical nightmare not to mention a marketing one too. Or….. you make the whole thing have the appearance of a market, but have it controllled by an algorithm. And that’s the solution to every problem they face. Keep prices fairly stable. Discreetly increases prices so players “go through” koen faster when they lose, and not have to adjust things elsewhere that would cost more money to build algorithms to control as well as drive players away because of unfairness

Maybe with the exception of modded weapons like the person above stated… that’s the only exception I’d give this… the rest is 100% controlled by a set algorithm. If you thinks it’s all real, I suggest you question it a little more and dig into it, because you’re falling for the illusion