State of the Economy: Ingame

[Werlop]

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

The dupers weren't simply a couple of isolated individuals. It was easy to do and a few more happened across it every day. It was so rampant that a quarter of the server had done it at least once, whether by accident or intent. And the people who were duping didn't simply buy a handful of things and sit on the rest. They sold the plat for real money.

Which dupe are we talking about, exactly? I've been playing since July 2010; the only dupe that widespread that I remember was the corpse duping that got rolled back. Anything that occurred further back than a year ago should have been normalized by normal economic activity unless it were large enough to sink the entire economy. Since the economy never sunk, I can only assume that somewhere the total plat amount was corrected.

[Autotune]

what was that dagger dupe that spread thru EC one night like a plague?

You literally couldn't give that dagger away... lol.

[Splorf22]

Hmm, but prices seem to be going back down again. I remember when I was playing in the spring Hierophant cloaks were 100k and RBGs were 65k; when I came back the RBG had somehow gone to 110k (I'm guessing that was the duping) but it's already down to 85-90k now and probably heading back to 65k eventually. Fungis are way cheaper now (and practically half the players in sol b have one) but that's because they are common now. Again it doesn't feel to me like the rare items right now are super overpriced. If you can buy a cloak of flames for 50-100k in EC, who is going to join a raiding guild when you can go farm plat?

Why don't we have the wiki people give us some answers here? It should be easy enough to plot the auction tracker values for a few items since kunark launch.