If SE can't handle exploits now, why will they be able to in 2.0?

[Elexia]

so... then why wouldn't they just change the items sell price instead of reducing gc seals attainable?

You don't see the slippery slope this causes? They reduced item vendor prices twice since 2010, any more there's no point in ever vendoring skill up items that doesn't sell on wards or random junk you get. Some people can make the potions you get as drops for example, melee rarely need ethers if at all ever, so they just vendor it for a quick buck, reduce that you're not doing much.

You nip the source.

[Azurymber]

You don't see the slippery slope this causes? They reduced item vendor prices twice since 2010, any more there's no point in ever vendoring skill up items that doesn't sell on wards or random junk you get. Some people can make the potions you get as drops for example, melee rarely need ethers if at all ever, so they just vendor it for a quick buck, reduce that you're not doing much.

You nip the source.

Unless they temporarily reduced the price during the event. This way people couldn't exploit it. And the max you could get out of it is the 50k seals. Could also create an incentive not to spend the 50k cap on these by telling people there will be a new GC company rank a week after the event ends which costs 50k.