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Originally Posted by Rykk
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and by this I mean why is it useful.... think about it, you can't actually buy anything with it other than gems for jewel craft. *which only enchanters do* or spells which becomes irrelevant because you don't need 100k to buy spells from a vendor. People buy items from other players with it, but why....? if there were shops in the game that you could buy useful weapons or armor from then I can see a use for it. In the real world money represents time and time is important because we have a finite amount of it and so because of that we attach a value to it. In EQ you can buy something for 100k which means nothing to the person holding the 100k because they can't actually spend it on anything.... its just the useless trading of monies
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If there were absolutely no plat sinks in the game then this would be true. But plat is paid to vendors for a great many things including recharging clicky items like midnight mallets, WC gate caps, puppet strings, and a large number of other items used on raids, people grouping, soloing, and power levelling. Because of these plat sinks which remain at a fixed rate, then arguably all other services items and commodities that plat can be exchanged for will have a value relative to these fixed rates but also affected by other factors like supply and demand. As such platinum holds value in game relative to the time it takes to accumulate.