The Economy of WoW

[--Pete]

Hi,

But in a way, it stabilizes the economy. Players will still be getting item drops from monsters that they can't use, and will want to sell them. But vendors only buy items for 1/4 price. As it is, the auction house is so easy to use (though not very accessible location-wise, but that's another topic), that players are willing to auction items for only 50% more than they'd get from vendors. So I'm sure they'd be willing to auction the items for say, 3/4 of the price, still allowing for a 1/4 discount compared to buying the item from a vendor.
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Good point. That would fix the prices for items that vendors sell. And to that extent it would stabilize the economy. But that would then liberate that much more gold for the high level characters to spend. Would that lead to even greater inflation on items not available from vendors? I don't know -- have to think about this some more.

--Pete