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It'll even itself out. The new players will vastly outnumber the old players, so their gil advantage will rapidly vanish if they try to dominate the market -- their supply of gil will be spread out if they try to corner the market by buying all of the much larger supply's items.
I don't really think the economy is actually going to be much of an issue, especially when you consider that, through level 20 as one class at least (as far as I've played in phase 3), you can never touch an auction board at all and do just fine; quests and dungeons will gear you up nicely.
I think people are looking at the Legacy servers and saying, "this would be just like if I joined (insert game here) 3 years in, with all the cliques and anti-new character economy." However, it's not really like that, because there's tons of new players rushing in that will overwhelm the existing 1.x players. To get anything done with jobs they haven't maxed (and I believe it's over 96% of 1.x characters that haven't maxed out even a single job), they'll have to get involved with the new players. To RP with anyone other than themselves, they'll have to reach out and get new players involved. It's not like anything we've seen in any other MMO, and I, for one, am looking forward to seeing what happens.
I don't really think the economy is actually going to be much of an issue, especially when you consider that, through level 20 as one class at least (as far as I've played in phase 3), you can never touch an auction board at all and do just fine; quests and dungeons will gear you up nicely.
I think people are looking at the Legacy servers and saying, "this would be just like if I joined (insert game here) 3 years in, with all the cliques and anti-new character economy." However, it's not really like that, because there's tons of new players rushing in that will overwhelm the existing 1.x players. To get anything done with jobs they haven't maxed (and I believe it's over 96% of 1.x characters that haven't maxed out even a single job), they'll have to get involved with the new players. To RP with anyone other than themselves, they'll have to reach out and get new players involved. It's not like anything we've seen in any other MMO, and I, for one, am looking forward to seeing what happens.
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((about me | about L'yhta Mahre | L'yhta's desk | about Mysterium, the Ivory Tower: a heavy RP society of mages))