So will economy be affected by suspentions?!
 

So I was thinking about how much the coin wipe on these accounts will affect the economy.

Will things get cheaper since there will be far less plat on the accounts? Keep in mind even if a mule hasn't actually used any hacking software, if the players main or alt has then all of the coin from the mule would be wiped as well.

Sellers who had liquified most of their assets will be hardest hit. Those that have mostly items won't be affected since no items are being taken away. I can't wait to see the prices in the EC tunnel.

Also what happens to people that have payed a large number of PP to buy someone else's account during the past two weeks that is now suspended due to previous owner's hacking? :eek:

Edit: Also, how many people that used to be anon will no run around /anon to hide their deleveled toons? That or people that don't show up for a couple of weeks...

In a word..........NO

There wasn't any warning, so it's not like anyone had time to prepare by moving plat to other accounts or anything similar. The economy will not change- the same people who were in charge of setting prices (trade guilds) probably aren't suffering from being banned/suspended. You don't need hacks to sell overpriced items in EC.

No but charging an arm and a leg for an item only works if there is a lot of people with platinum to burn that are willing to pay said price. If a huge number of plat just got wiped then there is less out there to buy these items. Either the seller will simply hold on to them or begin to sell them for less.

P99 suffered from severe inflation, ie; the plat was worth far less than normal due to the huge amount of it. If enough plat was wiped off of the server then we should see some deflation happening.

Servernomics is at work here.

I expect it will have a large impact on the server economy. Among other things, items from the hardest camps in EQ just became a lot harder to acquire.

The economy is inflated

Speaking of which, anyone see Daltheb online today?

Didn't think so.

Was he the one selling those fungi tunics?

Let it be known that on the 27th day of August, 2011 Daltheb has been named a known hacker to the community.