Lets talk about inflation:
Inflation, everything has an inflation price, whether it is stocks or general food store goods to websites they all can be truely even more expensive than they could be. Inflation is the increase of money for the product due to "rarity" of the resources or items required, in simpler terms, also thought of as the less there are and the more wanted it is; the more people want it and the more they're willing to pay for it.
What happened to Gaia's economy?:
Gaia's economy through the infamous inflation is occurring today, people who want expensive items want the items by increasing the prices of what they have, when everyone buys the cheapest items they will have to buy the more expensive ones next... Of course when people buy expensive items it gives other people the idea that they should sell their items for twice or triple the amount of gold that they bought it for. Thus causing people to pay more and sell for more. This could happen at any time but it occurs most often when there is a large gap between what is called the
"classes" of society. The classes of society are known as the Upper Middle and Lower class Gaians, Gaians recently had a decrease in middle classes causing a large increase in upper and lower class Gaians. With no middle class there will not be any decently priced items anymore and there can't be any more "buying and selling/entrepreneurship" anymore.
What does this Inflation have to do with me?:
Whether you are just starting out or coming back from a long deserved break, you will realize that items that would have been 70,000 or less are now in the 100,000 to 1,000,000 range. Depending on what items you have it cause determine how rich or poor you are in Gaia sadly. People just starting off will look into the market place with extreme disgust of how inflated the economy is, with nothing at a determined reachable price it will cause hindrance on the new Gaians thinking that pinball will save them from the seemingly endless debts they might get into for things as simple as a Assassin's Guise.
What can we do and what is your view?:
Well there is a simple solution, if you quit caring about your appearance and stop buying the marketplace items, they will slowly decrease, being self sufficient is key to not having to spend hundreds of millions of gold. We all worked hard on this and as much as I would like to save my money for the one item I dreamed about now seems impossible it is now time for a change.