Last thing the world needs is to increase a player's financial burden in a videogame.

[Artemiz]

The capacity to earn has increased.

Higher prices are not bad in of themselves. The capacity for a person to purchase is what's important, and with the various systems that are in the game, combined with the state of the markets - that haven't supported 200k rings in ages despite your protestations - means very few items are out of reach of an invested player.

I didn't mention 200k rings, you did.

Inflation has to be controlled, if you can't understand that then there isn't much more anyone can say to you. In the real world, countries collapse when inflation gets out of hand, in the game world games do the same. There are many examples of games where rampant inflation has completely ruined a game and developers, quite rightly so, like to be able to influence it before it gets out of control. It's much easier to control it now, than once it starts to get out of hand.