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This wrong. Unfortunatly, IGE isn't pumping equipment into the game, they are pumping PP and lots of it. The more money there is the higher prices go on everything, its inflation, economics at its most basic.
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Teltorid 51 Druid
Nicroll 34 Rogue
Chronot 12 Enchanter
<Obsidian Dragon Society>
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Pumping PP into the game? Are they magically making PP appear into their toons accounts?
No.
Scenario A (middlemen resellers)
Resellers BUY it from some thousands of kiddies who think selling 100kpp for 50 bucks they spent 2 months hoarding up so they can go to the movies is free money to them. After all, they where getting the money for having fun playing the game. The fact that if they calculated their avg. per hour wage they are "working" as contractors for IGE at 5 CENTS an hour ( based on a 100pp per hour farming ability, your wage may vary ). IGE then resells at a 100% profit or higher to folks who look at this and say to themselves, hmmmm... I ain't stupid, I make $20.00 an hour at my job. Buy 50k pp for one hours RL work time, or sit in front of computer for 5 HUNDRED hours to get the same amount of PP at 100pp per hour. DUH!
Scenario b (no middleme resellers)
Thousands of kiddies spend thousands of hours killing mobs for pp, 4,000 kiddies per hour generating 100pp each = 400,000 pp pumped into EQ economy (per server). Hmmm.. says the little kiddie to himself.. I got nothin' to buy with all this plat. My Uncle/Friend/Father/Sister/Guildmate/(insert random other player here) could use some plat. "Hey, here's 100kpp to get some stuff with, have fun."
End result? The same. Inflation and folks getting PP to buy stuff that they didn't "earn".
Stop whining. The economy is fine. I have no problems getting what I want when I want it. I make 25kpp a week (blow it all on tradeskills, my armour and stuff is all no drop, get to 250 in all tradeskill soon I hope, nice earring quest.)
Anyone can make this amount as well.
Don't want to earn PP? Earn AP.
Don't want to earn AP? Raid 4 hours a day with a decent guild.
Don't want to raid? Do quests.
Don't want to quest? Go play tic tac toe.