What's behind the drop in prices?

[Cecily]

Because of Chardok AE.

[IzHaN80]

RMT Ban removed lot of the plat from this server, thus making plat more valuable and escarce now.

[sunmilk]

This is the beginning of a mass exodus to the red server. Already people are becoming desperate for red platinum... the demand has been noted red-side and transfer rates have skyrocketed. The demand just outweighs the supply.

On the blue server, liquidity is at an all time premium. Must liquidate gear to get plat to xfer to red. Plat is king in this economy where blue is feeding red dozens of players by the day. All day long I see in red "WTT blue for red" and can only imagine what is going on blue side.

But I guess this is exactly what is happening on blue, and it makes complete sense. Enjoy your cheap prices, consider yourself lucky!

[indiscriminate_hater]

"There are literally dozens of us"

-- red

[fastboy21]

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

This is the beginning of a mass exodus to the red server. Already people are becoming desperate for red platinum... the demand has been noted red-side and transfer rates have skyrocketed. The demand just outweighs the supply.

On the blue server, liquidity is at an all time premium. Must liquidate gear to get plat to xfer to red. Plat is king in this economy where blue is feeding red dozens of players by the day. All day long I see in red "WTT blue for red" and can only imagine what is going on blue side.

But I guess this is exactly what is happening on blue, and it makes complete sense. Enjoy your cheap prices, consider yourself lucky!

Are these arrangements within/protected by the server policies?

[Swish]

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

Velious is still a long ways off (many months) and people are jumping the gun big time here.

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[Splorf22]

Pretty much what has been said so far: summer slump in population, velious on the horizon, RMT ban wave.

I don't think Red has much to do with it. If someone sells gear for pp to swap over to Red, presumably the buyer will just buy blue gear again.

[Swish]

What's the huge problem with everyone on the server building up their plat reserves?

Huge inflation pals when it all comes back into the system, you won't get any Velious pixels unless you've either been farming endless epic MQs or spending a lot of time PL'ing people in Chardok etc.

Enjoy that, I look forward to the tears in RNF.

[Brut]

What Velious pixels do people think they're buying?
Prty sure there aint gonna be no armor MQs or Lodi Shields up for grabs for nearly half a year, no matter how much plat you'd throw up.

[HeallunRumblebelly]

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

What Velious pixels do people think they're buying?
Prty sure there aint gonna be no armor MQs or Lodi Shields up for grabs for nearly half a year, no matter how much plat you'd throw up.

Nah, leather armor will be available for MQ within 3 months, guaranteed. Only problem is no one wants it! :P

edit: And lodi shields, eh...decent EB item, but I'm not going to wear it over hiero and certainly not over a shroud (or even less over an eashan cloak!)

I think AoNs coming from zland and eventually from more mobs in revamped fear will be a huge hit in that market. I think 36 haste will take an even larger hit as more guilds will be capable of attaining 41 haste, especially if they c/ffa/r shit like tormax. I think holgresh elder beads will be worth their weight in virgins (young women, not you people) in about 2 years. You're kidding yourself if you don't think SoDs / BoCs / flayed barb legs / flayed barb mask et al won't be sold for sweet sweet RMT cash. Speaking of that last line--can we go ahead and make the raid loot no drop already? Classic or not, fuck RMT.