Quote Originally Posted by Aegis View Post
When people are selling Sarngas for 500k-1mill on legacy servers a week after launch then claiming not to have suspected the people buying them were RMT strikes me as disingenuous. That's twice to three times what the average player completes the main storyline with.

It's harsh for the crafter, very harsh, but hopefully they only have to do this dragnet once or twice to cut RMT off at the root.
When a Sarnga requires 9 sap at 40-50k each the crafter has already invested close to 500k just in mats to make that Sarnga. One DD class could have spent a day grinding out the tomes for that and in one single day made at least 500k, just selling mats to crafters to buy the weapon they wanted. You can't place all the blame on crafters; the market sets the price of the materials, and the crafters set their prices in part on what it costs to make something.