Elindranyth
I've seen plenty of threads laying the blame squarely on Gaia for item inflation, but really, it's not entirely Gaia's fault.
Yes, Gaia has dumped a lot of gold into the economy. Yes, this devalues the currency.
But the prices in the Marketplace are set by users. The value of an item on Gaia is only that which someone is willing to pay.
And right now, we've got people who are willing to pay these outrageous prices.
Gaia is partly to blame for that. The release of Flynn's Booty has certainly made people richer than they were before. They are now capable of paying outrageous prices. But in the end, it's the user who decided "yes I will pay that price". They could have used all that extra gold to go buy art. They could have used it to go buy nice items in the Gold Shops. But they chose to spend it on an overpriced item in the marketplace, thereby validating the high price it was listed at.
I know a lot of people aren't going to agree with me, I just hadn't seen a topic addressing this point and it's been eating at me so I just wanted to share it
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It's easy to find a scapegoat to a situation, but if we worked through the line and order it's Gaia's fault for releasing it to begin with. Sure people didn't have to pay, but they way I look at is here's Gaia
Gaia: If you give me a little money I'll give you diamonds.
Userbase: WHAT A DEAL!? I WILL GET RICH OFF YOU!
When there are deals like this, people will have a hard time refusing.
And they could had bought art or something from the gold shops? If people bought art it would still be in the system, and there are a ton of limited choices of items in the gold shops. (Dernier Cri doesn't appeal to everyone.) People are smart, they'd invest their money into premium items, and so when the value of gold decreases, the value of their items will rise with the tide.
And again, you can blame the lack of gold sinks on Gaia again.
No matter how many times we point fingers, we always conclude to the same exact answer. It's Gaia's fault for trying to make money off our member's weakness of being loyal to them.