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What do y'all think about this?

Feels like SE is protecting the JP server markets from being raided by the gaijins.

Or is this reading too much into it?
While I feel like it's a bit of both, as a person with characters on both NA and JP servers, there's a huge difference in the markets. Some of the things that I've been able to afford on my JP character, I can't afford on my NA characters as market prices are significantly higher on the NA servers. Market prices saw a rather big spike on Yojimbo when ShadowBringers brought in it's influx of players. Even the housing market there rose and what was once a server where players could upgrade to a bigger plot whenever they wanted to without worry that there wouldn't be any available when they were ready, turned into there now being no plots available.