Why is plat so important????

[Rykk]

and by this I mean why is it useful.... think about it, you can't actually buy anything with it other than gems for jewel craft. *which only enchanters do* or spells which becomes irrelevant because you don't need 100k to buy spells from a vendor. People buy items from other players with it, but why....? if there were shops in the game that you could buy useful weapons or armor from then I can see a use for it. In the real world money represents time and time is important because we have a finite amount of it and so because of that we attach a value to it. In EQ you can buy something for 100k which means nothing to the person holding the 100k because they can't actually spend it on anything.... its just the useless trading of monies