What happened to cause prices to go through the roof these past months?

[Elmarnieh]

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

Changes do the supply and demand schedules alone do not explain changes in pricing as we've seen them. Increases in demand should also correlate to higher rates of farming of certain items, which should keep the price at or near equilibrium.

Aggregrate Demand-Aggregrate Supply model is probably the real reason.

Short term spikes in demand in conjunction of "market makers" artificially increasing prices through selective item purchasing/hoarding is the likely reason.

The other possibility is RMTing and plat duping, but I'll only find that the likely scenario if prices don't come down relatively sharply in the next 2 months.

This assumes maximum supply was not already reached. For items such as Fungi's and others they max rate of entry into the market. Remember we can't just build another sebilis and double our supply when demand spikes.