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Lolli of the Army- many of the newer "low end" items do have sellback. High-end ones do not. Gaia assigning a store price means that the item will never sell for less than half its price on the marketplace. This effectively guarantees that even the "common" RIG items will never go below 10k, 30k, or whatever other sellback value they are assigned. The most it goes under is maybe up to 1k or a misprice. As a whole, the price stabilizes at those sellback values if the item was common.
At thread in general and monopoly;
Gaia does have an effect on the marketplace with their release strategy. Good luck gaining "monopoly" on a common item- it's near impossible. It really only happens when you do have a very limited source, that is, with the cats that have been released lately.
Not to mention, there does exist the threshold where users are not going to pay the price, or there are too little people who will, and the item cannot be sold quickly. This lets the marketplace listing stagnate and eventually the prices are either lowered, or other people who obtain the item sell for slightly less to move theirs more quickly- or for a lot less to move it even more quickly.
Add in a larger supply and you have killed the AI scheme.
Demand does not "cancel" this because the actual purchasing ability is limited by amount of interested potential customers who actually have the gold, and further reduced by the ones who decide the price isn't worth it.
"Monopoly" is exceptionally difficult to maintain on a site like this, unless the source is incredibly limited (say, to the point where it actually is possible to name how many exist at any given time).
Partial control happens with most cases. Increasing supply will change this, and no amount of demand will change that.
What high demand will likely do in that case is make sure the price stays at a high, but not unreachable, price.
Gaia probably knows full well how rare they made it, but I don't think it was the greatest move. You do not stand a reasonable chance of getting that cat with gold. You do not even stand a reasonable chance of getting that cat with cash and luck. So then what? Neither option is particularly appealing when purely considered for the cat itself.
That said, Gaia should not remove the free market scheme- which putting a "cap" on price will do.
And unless they somehow regulate trades, the cat'd just be removed from the MP and switched to the Exchange.
Gaia does affect the marketplace with how they release items. Directly interfering by putting caps on pricing, however, is a method that I would question. They've already done it for the lower end, which I guess is a good way to guarantee value out of a purchase, but higher end is a lot tougher, if not impossibly impractical and/or unfair.
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