My points stand by their logic. They are valid and backed by what really happens in the game, not based on some existential wishful twisting of reality.


Inflation does harm a game as proven by the need for money sinks. The proof is valid and the concept should be easy for even you to see.


Also, seeing that you (and the logic that you use) were so obviously and completely wrong about "The one and only way inflation can hurt someone. . ." (and wrong about so many other things) I can understand you wanting to stay out of the conversation except for sniping.

 

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I think everyone should be required to purchase a healing service for 1 plat a month, then make healers free. People without any plat could get a 1 plat per month subsidy by keeping their toons poor, and then tax the bejeesus out of everyone with more than 50 plat on a toon to cover the subsiidy. Pretty soon it will even out all the inflation and we'll all be broke.

Plus, it will completely screw all the really hard working people (well, and the overseas macro folks) who farm/PVE like mad to get rich, so they won't want to work any more and viola!, no more ridiculously priced items on the CM for peeps to long after.

And yet, I have seen some of the things he described happening. Happened to me once, in fact. Offered something for way below market price, and the guy who bought it told me he'd put it on his merchant for three times what I sold it to him for...

Didn't much matter to me, since I just wanted the silly thing out of my vault, but there's an example.

Another example you might want to consider is the price of Scales.
In spite of Scale supplies increasing pretty steadily over the past couple years, the price has been increasing also - used to be you could get them for 10G per, now it's in the 15-20g per range.

 

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give plat quests

add merchants for

infernal sleeves
astral armor
sh loot

 

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