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Originally Posted by Ikonoclastia
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Yeah the economy seems pretty screwed up, I'm having some doubts whether its going to be worthwhile staying around now solely because of this. By the sounds of it to get a high level set of tradable gear at 60 its going to be costing multiple millions in platinum's with some items I'm seeing being auctioned close to a million by themselves.
Comparatively on my server back in 2001 we were paying 2.5k for a FBSS, here its 10k at best, gatorscale legs were 200pp, here they're 800pp.
Problem being plat generation from gameplay hasn't quadrupled but prices seem to have.
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The fact that this is an old game when people started they already knew what were big time money makers. People farmed manastones and guises and stuff like that knowing they are valuable. People knew where the good plat camps were. They also did this much faster, on live people didn't even know manastones were useful until they started raiding and getting higher levels. Couple that with now all they do is raid and sell their unneeded raid gear, they have plat just sitting doing nothing. This game has no money sinks so plat just gets moved around and never really goes anywhere. Hence there is a huge amount of plat for a small amount of people. Everything will be priced much higher because people who have been playing since the start can and don't mind. 10k to someone who has 600k is a drop in the hat. The only real million plat items are ridiculous VP gear that is trade-able, maybe a prenerf fungi staff. I mean to be fully welled geared at 60 and not spend a shit ton of plat is possible. I would estimate most classes can be pretty well geared for 50k-100k. Just huge tickets items like RBG's, CoFs, and shit like that are going to cost a pretty penny. But back on live these items werent as readily for sale because they werent farmed and raided at hard so getting them were most likely because you raided.
Atleast thats my 2cents on the matter