Legacy items on Green99 - pros and cons

[fortior]

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

Not when a select group of people hoard the item and it's not added to the supply or only marginally impacts the supply.

If people want to extract value from the manastones they farmed, they have to add to the supply. Demand stays the same since they're manastones, so even if 1 person gets them all each manastone they sell is one added to the supply. The most they can do is slow down the rate of price reduction

[DMN]

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

If people want to extract value from the manastones they farmed, they have to add to the supply. Demand stays the same since they're manastones, so even if 1 person gets them all each manastone they sell is one added to the supply. The most they can do is slow down the rate of price reduction

Before going all Adam Smith here, you might want to check out what a monopoly is and how that all works with supply/demand.

[fortior]

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

Before going all Adam Smith here, you might want to check out what a monopoly is and how that all works with supply/demand.

Even with a complete monopoly whichever neckbeard is farming them is only adding to the total amount of manastones, which means that at some point between now and the heat death of the universe, I will be able to afford one

Yeah, they could hoard all the stones instead of selling them, but then they're not getting any plat either, and lets be real people are going to camp that stuff for plat (and their rent/a new car)

[Jimjam]

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

Even with a complete monopoly whichever neckbeard is farming them is only adding to the total amount of manastones, which means that at some point between now and the heat death of the universe, I will be able to afford one

Yeah, they could hoard all the stones instead of selling them, but then they're not getting any plat either, and lets be real people are going to camp that stuff for plat (and their rent/a new car)

Old stones leave the market, either on dead accounts or on characters that will never sell. New characters are rolled everyday, new players join the server.

Perhaps one day you will be right, and the interplay will mean you can find one at the right price for you. Honestly I think you are underestimating how draconic players sitting on mountains of wealth are.

I don't think the stone will ever be at a price I'd be willing to pay; in a post vanilla Everquest it seems rather a gimmick.