If a duper buys items, then the platinum that they created is distributed through the sellers. If a duper dupes items and then sells them, they will have to somehow offload that platinum. Eventually the money or items that they duped become redistributed through the market. After a long period of time, platinum equilibrates and is simply devalued by the relative % of new money that entered the system. Because prices have become stable at levels that are tolerable for even new players, it seems that the duped platinum was either 1. eliminated by banning dupers or the mass platinum purge a few months back or 2. people who dupe millions of platinum only spend a small fraction of that total before realizing that they have nothing else to buy.
If a person dupes 200 million platinum and then spends 500k of it, 500k has entered the economy. If they never spend the other 199.5M either because it is removed or because there is nothing to buy, then that extra money may as well have been burnt.
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01-22-2012, 08:11 PM
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