The price of something in EQ is 100% dependent on what people are willing to spend on available items. For instance a complete Rogue epic MQ goes for around 25k these days while a single key Mage epic MQ item may go for more than 500k. The only reason for the price difference is the availability of key items and clearly one is more available than another. It's only rational to get the highest price you can as a seller and the lowest price as a buyer. This tug of war is a very good thing.
Also, there are no down sides to free markets when compared to the alternatives, such as command economy, communism, corporatism (what we mostly have globally). If you think the western world has a free market model you are reta... uninformed.
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01-16-2015, 10:56 AM
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