Good, good. We need people like you. /pat pat
Well, a while ago, Gaia released this item called "Flynn's Booty."
You see, Flynn use to be the owner of the cash shop, but then she decided she wanted to be a space pirate or something. Suddenly, she comes back for a bit and shows us Flynn's Booty. It's a gold gen. Click on it and open it, bam, you get gold.
It's like pink links, if you remember those. However, the gold payout for Flynn's Booty is much, much higher. Since so much gold was circulating the system, people raised their prices. They kept releasing Flynn's Booty after they said that they were done doing it, and soon after, Flynn's Chest came around with an even higher gold payout.
This caused even more gold to come into the system, and the prices got crazy jacked up.
After that, Gaia started releasing more gold generators. Maybe one a week at first, but they started releasing more and more and increasing the payout of it all.
Right now, they're released like, seven or eight in just this week alone? They're all pretty much the same thing, but with a different name and design. Now, they even put "special" ones inside the gold gens that allows you to get even more of the same gold gen. The highest payout of gold now is 125 billion compared to the several million Flynn's Booty and Chest had to offer.
And because of this, prices are s**t crazy. New items that use to start off at 500k+ like a year and a half ago are now starting off around 5 billion.
Even those stupid red/green/blue octopuses aren't even worth 1 gold like they use to be. Inflation jacked those up at least 40000%.