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Originally Posted by Pseudosin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'd normally agree with you, but due to the unique nature of p99, it'll actually drive prices up. By unique I mean money camps like Fungi and Tranix have been and will be camped 24/7 regardless of if someone is doing it to RMT or to gain in game pp. The demand for money camps, regardless of reason, is disproportionately high. Whether they are RMTing or not the same number of items are going to enter the server no matter what. I would say that supply is going to stay constant no matter what.

Scenario 1: If supply is constant, and you have a pool of players with legit pp as your demand, as long as both stay constant price stays the same.

Enter in the RMTer scene, you still have a constant supply, but now along with your pool of legit players with legit pp as your demand, you have an additional pool of players using either $$$ as currency, or buying pp they wouldn't normally have with $$$. Either way, your supply is constant, and your demand is now the demand from scenario 1 + the additional demand from the new group that wants to obtain via RMT.

Supply stays constant, demand goes up, price increases. So the net effect of RMT is that prices increase items.

The economyquest is real. Seriously though, who gives a fuck about a sub-minimum-wage RMT payout? If you're that rustled about it then you're basically admitting your real life is less important than pixels