which was designed to be the main sink and using sites such as the auction
house also warrants a small gold fee. After the game was launched, there
were early concerns among the player base. People quickly found that no
one was using the blacksmith. Instead, the player base bought and sold
from the auction and from other players, meaning practically no gold was
being released from the game.With more money, prices began to soar. Is it
a bad time to mention you could convert gold into real world money?
Bots descended on the video game, manufacturing huge quantities of gold.
The prices increased massively so people wanted to get rid of their money
as quickly as possible, before the prices inflated further, akin to the long
waits to buy bread and dairy products the second you got paid in early
1930s Germany and modern-day Venezuela. This meant that prices
rocketed higher and higher, as there was way more demand than supply.
To quote one player ‘Yesterday Fiery Brimstone was 150k, now almost
300k. Each time I hit refresh it seems to be going up a bit.’
Image shows Bolivars required to buy these everyday items in Venezuela in 2018
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