State of the Economy: Ingame

[aerokella]

not classic rogean doesnt give a fuck /thread move on

[Grozmok]

If people aren't buying things at insane prices, what's keeping them inflated?

[fischsemmel]

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

CoF sells for a ridiculous price I wont even mention... [and I'm upset because I'll never be able to afford one!]

This isn't WoW. You don't get to buy a piece of top-tier gear just because you spent a few hours farming herbs and then threw them on the auction house.

[Selly]

Basically raiding guilds have the market cornered and there is no plat sink so they can charge whatever they want.

And for people who have been 60 for a year + plat adds up fairly quickly

[funhorroryes]

it is far more easier to camp the loots then to farm the plat for them

[Faywind]

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

Basically raiding guilds have the market cornered and there is no plat sink so they can charge whatever they want.

And for people who have been 60 for a year + plat adds up fairly quickly

Nobody has been 60 for a year + on this server... [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Fazlazen]

I support the Guise of the deceiver idea.

[Grozmok]

^

That's really sad, hyperinflation is completely screwing new players - including myself.

I guess I'll have to suck it out with mediocre items at best until I camp enough "decent" items I can resell to get my own wheelbarrow of EverQuest Rubles.

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[Fianna]

Oh wow. What a sad post by Uthgaard.

Makes me a bit discouraged as as a new player, that the server is flooded with duped isk [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Barkingturtle]

I find billions of duped plat pretty tough to believe.

Just as an observer who's been on the server for nearly its entire life and has been active in the tunnel that entire time I haven't seen the dramatic swings which would be caused by billions of plat entering the economy. We don't see items sold for over a million basically ever, and prices aren't too far off what I remember from live during about Luclin era, pre-bazaar.

I don't know, though. I'm just a dude who has played the tunnel to the tune of 100k while never leveling a character past 40. I admit I don't have the same insider knowledge of a dude who was evidently forced off the server against his will and seems kinda bitter about it, but anecdotaly I just don't see that rampant a problem.

It's a two-way street, in any event. Perhaps there are billions of duped plats, but that just means you're better off farming items to sell than farming vendor drops. I mean, inflation only really hurts if you remain solely a consumer, forever.