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Originally Posted by tommydgun
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as an economics major i can tell you that you are describing the market forces at play completely wrong. you are pretending there are only demand shifts, but there was also a supply shift as the total items in the server essentially also doubled with the merge aka "supply shift" which would at the same time as your "demand shifts" move prices down. you could try to argue that prices would rise in the future because the inflow of items is now reduced by half because there are half the spawns that two servers would produce, but this would also be a restriction on incoming platinum, which again would reduce buying power and price. so really, the net difference is ambiguous with both demand and supply shifts occurring simultaneously, but really prices probably shouldn't have changed.
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Yes, but the demand shift remains constant, whereas the supply shift is temporary as the items incoming from Teal are finite. Once the market deals with that small surplus, it will return to an equilibrium, and will invariably result in higher prices as demand outpaces supply due to the heavy limitations on supply. Incoming platinum is relatively constant, as all players are still receiving platinum at a steady rate assuming they’re actively playing the game while logged in.