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Originally Posted by Vexenu [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I've hardly been playing for the past couple months and just started back a little, and in that span prices on mid-high end items are up 50-100%. Even if plat duping and/or massive RMT are not responsible, there is still desperate need for a plat sink of some type. There's too much money sloshing around at the high end. There needs to be a mechanism to give the richest players something to do with their wealth besides bidding up the prices of all decent droppables.

An NPC casino that offers no drop versions of no longer dropping and GM event/custom items would probably be the best idea. Or if a casino NPC can't be done, just make him a vendor, with items priced from 200k - 10 million plat.

This is not classic, but is needed due to the server itself not being classic with its timeline (among other reasons). And the "non-classic" impact would itself be very minimal, since these items already exist in the game world at a very high price tag, and the presence of very rare custom/GM event items is also well-documented as classic.

Since these items cannot be acquired through normal gameplay (camped) and can only be purchased from other players (in the case of manastones, fungi staffs, etc...) or having them randomly awarded (custom/GM gear) there is no real impact on classic gameplay whatsoever. The only difference is that instead of spending millions of plat for an item by giving it to another player (which keeps it in the economy), you give it to an NPC (which removes it from the economy), or instead of getting lucky at a GM event, you give a large amount of plat to an NPC. The items still exist in the game world, either way. Selling them in this way simply allows for a steady deflation of plat from the economy, to offset the steady inflation of plat constantly being generated by mob kills over time.

A new NPC vendor would ruin the immersion for me personally. IF they put these items on vendors already present and they were no drop, I would be okay with that.