tcaz2 posted...
EDIT: And playing the market is prohibited for valid reasons. When people start to do so, it jacks up the prices for things beyond reasonable levels to the point where the entire economy is flipped on its head, and nobody can make any money how it was originally intended.
That's exactly what happened to WoW, and several other MMOs that let people do that.
Err, no. I play the auction house in WoW every day, and this does not happen. If prices go up too high then nobody can buy them....so the supplier that has cornered the market will eventually bring prices down so he can actually make money. It's supply and demand in its simplest form.
The only problems exist on realms that are simply too small to support an economy, but that's still not a result of anybody forming a monopoly.
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