in my opinion, the biggest issue with the market isn't greed (sure, folks are greedy...but the market has nothing to do with greed. items only sell for what someone will pay. supply and demand meet somewhere, and thats the price. if someone can sell an fbss for 11k they aren't being greedy, they are being smart business people.)
the biggest issue is that we are essentially like the old live "split" servers.
i can't prove this other then my own intuition (maybe the devs can) but if you were to graph the amount of players who joined and when they joined the game here it would be very much lop-sided towards the second half of time the server has been up. in other words there are a (relative) small number of folks that have been here almost since the beginning, and a much (relatively) larger number that are newer.
this has created an economy dominated by players that were farming FBSS's when most of the community hadn't even gotten out of their newbie zones. that is the first problem.
when you combine this with a server that has TONS of alts being rolled currently...and only more as we approach kunark era (when ppl will go back to their mains for a while) there is a very very lopsided super high demand for droppable "high lvl to obtain low lvl usable gear." Enter the 12k FBSS, etc.
I believe this will fix itself during kunark for a number of reasons, but until then the market is going to be a very unfriendly new player place if you want to obtain the best buyable gear in the game. Don't get me wrong the problems will still remain in kunark (I believe we will see SUPER ridiculous prices on fungis the first week), but it will slowly correct during kunark.
One caviat, if there is another "boom" in server population during kunark of new (not returning) players we may have the same problem all over again. I'm not sure how this will play out.
Another upcoming issue that will decimate the economy here (potentially) is the release of a new progression server from EQ...I believe they will announce it at fanfaire the first week of july.
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