Quote Originally Posted by Nutshell View Post
Not everything causes it to happen as much as others. The developers can design the economy in a way that discourages RMT, not eliminate like you seem think it has to be, from happening.
No, they can't.
Gold has been pretty useless in WoW at times, yet RMT still existed.

Gil is as useless in this game as it gets outside of housing and crafting has little impact on that. Gear drops in value at a ridiculous pace, being affordable to the masses after a week or two.

BTW: I wouldn't blame crafting for the prices. Crafting has very little to do with it, the only stuff that is expensive are the sort of rare RNG based treasure map materials. These would be just as expensive if crafting was a no stats 1 button thing.