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Originally Posted by Suzerain of Sheol
So, if some sort of plutocracy is formed by the extremely wealthy on here, buying donation items for extremely high prices because a.) they want to make sure they get the items and b.) because they have so much money that it's still mere pennies to them, it makes the acquiring of donation items by less well-off posters (who can't afford to donate real money to the site) extremely difficult, if not impossible, as even if said plutocracy does decide to sell the items, as you said, why would they sell for less than they payed? And since they've effectively created a monopoly, the price of the item in question is driven enormously high.
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THANK YOU. That's a almost perfect analysis, one real factor that is that not a lot of people are donating to the site to begin with , which is understandable not everybody has real life money to spend like you said...
(Everything posted below here is to everyone, not you xD. You get a cookie for being smart! *Hands over*)
For the last 3 months Fenris has been telling us that Trisphee have been just making enough money to get the site going.
So of course Runes are going to cost a lot, a lot of you are complaining that people with a bunch of aurum are jacking up the prices but really if you paid any close attention, the price of runes have been going up gradually sense the beginning of 2011.
(And if you want proof on that, just ask. I'm glad to take my time to make a small badly made chart on price increase on runes for 2011.)
I'm annoyed that people are complaining about prices that have been going up by real inflation, its not freaking artificial like everybody thinks it is. And even more annoyed (pretty much pissed) that they have to blame other people for not selling runes they bought with their own real money to give them something they want. Sure they might hoard them for themselves or sell hoards of them to other people. ITS THEIR MONEY, DEAL WITH IT!
Just think of it this way, the site is slowly dieing because lack of money. People are deciding to quit because they can't get a monthly item in a few short days. Maybe some of those people donate, so now the site is losing more money. And then prices increase even more, then more people leave. By the end of it all the site is gone because it couldn't have ends meet.
Woah that took a load off of my chest.. *Whips face*