Ok it's not hard to do...
Somebody should look through the archives on this forum and check prices for items. Then compare those prices to what they're now or what they were after. If the price went up with time then that indicates inflation. It indicates the abundance of platinum in the economy; which allows for higher prices.
Do this for fungi's and FBSS or whatever.
Get the numbers. I'd like to see em anyway.
It makes sense that the old players will have lots of platinum saved up over the years. It makes sense they might spend mucho plat on alt twinks. However, it doesn't make sense that old players will play forever. Even rolling alts is something only some players will do consistently. Eventually they get burnt out. And because the game has been stuck on Kunark, that's anothe reason old players won't stick around.
For example, it makes sense to me that years and years of farming should mean lots and lots of awesome gear distributed in the economy. Because there's so much of it, it should be cheap.
But what makes sense (one person or another) doesn't always happen. So I'd like to see the numbers. Otherwise, we're all having our own subjective rant and it's not going to be heard.
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