this is a little off topic, but a worthy tangent. Check out this article
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/17/ma...anted=all&_r=0 if u want to cut through the non-relevant stuff, just do a page search for everquest. On a more related not tho, plat here def reps time spent, which gives it value, talk to people like nizzler or regular fungi king campers...Also do you know about the massive amount of RMT that went down during the IB/TR exodus? And also, i have been around since the servers first days, and there was about 100 of us who played. During that time plat did not seem as valuable i must admit, i mean the community was so small that people generally just passed gear along when they upgraded. And when there was commerce it generally was bartering. However, as people reached to a lvl where they could farm things, even in groups, plat quickly became a hot commodity, maybe because it now time factored more into it's value. Which would be a direct result of people farming instead of manifestly being there to lvl. Take it as what you will, but i think you might not be getting an A in your theory class.