Atomos = Inflation...

[Darkillumina]

It's not like people were buying from a busted NPC that pays more for its own goods than the sale price. There was no duping, no hacking, no trickery. It's business sense. I have played enough RPGs to know the first thing to look for in a token currency is a way to convert it into general currency. I was selling dark matter gained through GC before Atomos. Is that not legitimate? Does legitimacy end where vendoring begins?

Dawn drops are recruit-tier items. They have been available since there were seals to redeem. They have always been NPCable. If you could stomach the tedium, you were guaranteed at minimum ~1M gil of dawn drops every earth hour at the height of the gold rush. There was no market delay, no fluctuation in price and no competition. It was literally free money. Are you telling me whatever LEGITIMATE BUSINESS PRACTICE you engage in guarantees you 1 million gil every hour through the market wards?

You are correct however.......

You don't take the time needed to buy up all the dawn drops and sell them into the equation. That takes a massive amount of time as does NPC'ing them all. If it were as easy as selling them by 999 and buying them up as a 999 stack then yes but as it stands it takes a looooong time to sell them. You can make more money doing other things. If it were as simple as 1 million instantly per hour than Atomos would be superior to everything.

I know it's hard for many of you to believe but not everyone made their money off of leve spam or anything else similar. Many people made tons of money by just having some common sense, leveling the right crafts/gathering classes and playing the markets wisely instead of blindly spending gil without thought to consequence. The ease of use in this method is what attracted so many to it. For people who do not have a crafting or gathering job leveled this was a godsend.