Red has a more stable, healthy economy than blue.
Rexx touched on a big part of why this is in his post - utility items that need to be purchased like pumices are small, but viable, platinum sinks.
Less people farming less platinum means higher value per PP. There's simply less pp in the economy than there is on blue, which is why most items are cheaper here (~50k fungi vs ~80kfungi on blue). The exception, of course, is resist gear and certain valuable PvP clickies, which will cost more due to higher demand (there are some items on blue that are next to worthless that will sell for 1k+ here)
Item prices fluctuate far less on Red than they do on Blue for a number of reasons. Blue experiences far more bans for RMT, and we've made a few policy changes here and there to try and curb inflation. The value of Blue platinum has been going s
PP being worth more is good for the little guy just starting out. NPC's still drop the same amount of pp, gems, and vendor items, which are the only ways to get platinum circulating into the economy. But because the platinum is worth more, lowbies get more bang for their buck.
tl;dr red has a smaller, more stable economy, which is better for new players who can buy more stuff
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