Quote Originally Posted by Starbell View Post
Quite often it's the gilsellers setting the prices, since they're the ones farming the stuff. Everyone else just follows suit.

In Final fantasy XI, they were known for buying out items on auction and putting them back up at crazy prizes.
By crazy you mean reasonable, right? It was RMT that actually sold items at reasonable prices on many servers after awhile whereas it was legit players who were making it their mission to rip you off - Any new crafted item comes out? Players sell it for 700% profit basically (Costs 20k to make, selling for 2-7 million initially) - RMT sells it for reasonable prices (20k to make, selling for 8-40k). Quite honestly I would immediately buy from an RMT before I buy from someone trying to make 700% profit. RMT ruins economies, but not as badly as players are, especially if you take a look at the market board on any legacy server, you'll see we don't need RMT to "ruin" anything.