Talk:Riven Mods/@comment-94.66.249.111-20180127181833/@comment-32972576-20180205120446

I think you're both quite right in what you say here. Like a lot of players, I used to think that plat was really important and necessary and so on. Nowadays I much prefer to negotiate a trade for the things I want, and skip needing plat altogether. I say this as someone who literally has 2p to his name, and has closed numerous deals recently.

I guess what I'm saying is that I think that plat is quite overrated, but I've been playing this game for quite a while now, so maybe my opinion is a bit tainted by that and that's probably a minority view. I guess that plat is nice for determining the relative value of something, but then it really depends on what value you choose to assign to items in the first place, doesn't it? You don't necessarily have to agree with what "the market" says something is worth - I don't most of the time! I suppose plat is also good if you have nothing else to trade. Everybody wants something after all, that's why they're stood there selling things they don't want - why not offer a trade instead if you have something they want which you don't use? Maybe it comes down to how greedy you are? I dunno...

It also helps to persist a bit with people and stand your ground as a buyer, but to also be polite when doing so. For instance, I got talking to someone over a riven, for the Drakgoon if I recall. Anyhow, he said he wanted 600p for it, but he could come down on it. I wrote back "I think you'll have to come down a lot!", which was more polite than, say, "Are you serious?" or "Did you mean to type that?!" etc.. He said 150p to me, still too much frankly, so I wrote, "Well I have no plat to speak of, could I offer you a trade?". We took it from there, I showed him some rivens I didn't want anymore, and whilst we didn't settle on a deal in the end, if we had gone through with it we both might have mutually benefitted more from the exchange than one of us handing over platinum.

Anyhow, maybe someone reading this will feel the same as I do, maybe not. Just my thoughts on plat and trading in general really, and really I share them just to generate discussion and provide "food for thought", or to bore everyone to tears! Your choice.