The_Suicide_Room
Einrick
Actually, items bought with Gaia Cash have little if any impact on the Marketplace prices. Rather, it's the gold generators (items that are used to produce gaia gold) while have caused the large amount of inflation and large price increases on everything.
Those things actually work?
The most recent "Make it Pour" produces between 10 million to 3 billion, from what I've seen. Given that you can buy 48 of them for $15, that's around 2.4 billion gold (assuming 50 million average).
When you have a lot of people spending their $15 this month on Make it Pour rather than just buying Monthly Collectables or other items directly, not only does everything in the marketplace inflate (because there is more gold to spend on everything) but the new items skyrocket in price, because there are no longer large numbers of them thanks to less people buying them directly. This is why, say,
Ikki the Kitsune is 900 million but
Midnight Violeztin is almost 3 billion.