This idea completely ignores the middle class. This entire concept does. Its american politics in my elf sim noooooo! The majority of the population that plays are not FTE that grind hundreds of thousands of platinum. Nor are they brand new.
The problem with these ideas are that the effects impact only the player in the midst of their journey through Norrath.
The high end legendary item grinders will instantly begin the grind for more PPs and items again upon any economic intervention. They will quickly reacquire a stranglehold on the market and dominate the tunnel once more if not on a grander scale.
While this happens, the majority of players like myself cant transfer the mid level items we have on one character to an alt that we might want to play instead. My moneys gone (that in mid game comes exponentially slower than it does 50+) and my items are restricted that I probably wanted to recycle and use to level up an alt after I looted my first raid item drop.
And then there are the new players who are affected by this minimally to none.
Maybe its my personal ties to the issue... or just that i dont think using a big brother hand to guide the market into "fairness" or "more classic" will work in any scenario. especially since the (as stated above) timeline here far outstretches that of live and the preventative measures were not put in place beforehand.
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