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Originally Posted by Ele
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I would hypothesize that fresh players are actually much, much wealthier (whether in liquid funds or item progression) than they would have been on live during the same expansion time period with the trickle down of mid-tier and lower-high end Kunark gear being liquidated by high end players, giving away plat to newbies for spells, etc. Very few players have to level with rusty weapons.
Sure there are some items which have higher values, but the vast amount of plat farming (Pre & post Kunark), epic MQ farming, and extended timeline has caused far, far more wealth to circulate on P99 than live had (without exploits). High end players have hundreds of thousands in plat (some with millions) ready to get the items/MQs they want.
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Wealth is relative. When, as you point out, veteran players have hundreds of thousands-to-millions of plat stocked up, amounts that then have an impact on market prices (as items which might otherwise be somewhat more reasonably priced are inflated, knowing that they're often being sold to alts of the aforementioned extremely rich players as opposed to actual new characters who don't have those kinds of resources), the fact that new players may get more hand-me-downs than they would've during the same period on live isn't really a balanced tradeoff. They - and by they I actually mean "we," given I only started at the end of April myself - are likely much farther behind on the whole than they were on live outside of whatever lucky giveaways happen to land on them.