Man if only you could somehow apply this in real life OP

haha. Maybe the OP is secretly Bill Gates! You never know... :cool:

Sell off don't make sense if you anticipate everyone leaving. Why sell your stuff if you are going to leave? Why sell your stuff if you think everyone else will leave?

Theres only one reason he'd sell everything, I'd be watching him like a hawk if I were Braknar :p

merging 2 server's databases probably way too much effort so I doubt the staff ever does that

They have to merge -- cuz EQ is dead without the people

I've got 400plat saved, im lvl 28. Make me beautiful

"paint me like one of your tunnel peasant customers"

Let me know when you've got 10k, and I will.

Actually it would likely go the other direction, all of the mentioned items become super rare because now they're sitting on unplayed characters. Stuff that no longer drops would definitely not become more common all of a sudden because people leave the server, a lot of people that quit or move would save it for a merge making it even less common to see the stuff on the marketplace. Granted a lot of the platinum on the server would share the same fate, but anyone that has one of those items is going to hang onto them.