Most of the people with this much plat have just been playing a long time.
We also had access to big ticket items before they were nerfed...i still haven't spent anywhere near all my holgresh elder bead money on blue. I didn't understand at the time why people were selling them so cheap and/or not farming them...made it easier for me to snag a ton of them though and squirrel them away for the coming nerf. By far the biggest single cash move I've ever had in EQ. Still wonder why everyone wasn't hiding away at least 1 or 2 beads when they knew what was coming.
I also spent an entire summer farming disco bugs religiously, mostly tabbed out between cycles...hard to say how much I made, but it prob came out to about 5k per day almost every day for a couple of months. Not exactly rich from it, but an easy few 100k without hardly any risk or effort.
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