Doesn't even know what he's talking about...RL economy =/= Gaia economy, and is drasticaly different for that matter.
Alright, I'll start with Lanzer.
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It has been our objective to make Gaia a great hang out, and it has been our objective to make Gaia as fun and fair for everyone.
It is "fair." What you're saying is your trying to make things easier for newbies, but what about everyone else? We had to quest for nice items, we didn't have it easy, why should they?
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Brand new monthly collectible used to cost 4,000 gold to get, now days it cost up to 15,000 gold or more.
That's because there are more users, more gold in the system. I'm going to use the term inflation, to describe the value of GOLD, not collectibles.
Back in the day, 4000 gold was worth around the same that 15000 gold is worth today.
Lets "talk" to our economist.
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More trade through the marketplace lowers the number of items sold back to the stores. Selling items back to the store is the only way gold leaves the economy (yes, it sounds weird - selling an item back to the store and getting gold actually gets gold out of the system, but when you look at the economy as a whole, this is how it works). So in order to keep "inflation" at the same rate it was before, we have to remove some gold out of the system. A 2% listing fee does exactly that - it's supposed to take out the same amount of gold that the new marketplace design will prevent from flowing out of the system. And it hits the source of the problem - if the marketplace is changing the flow of gold out of the economy, the marketplace is the right place to correct it.
Ok, so you're goal will only accomplish changing the value of gold, not items.
And now, that's not true. I guess you need more than a couple months to study the economy, as we BUY things from stores, (where does that money go?) and there are many other goldsinks on the website. Goldsinks should be offered in the form of something people will not only willingly give up gold for, but get something like fun from it. I hate to say it but Gaia cars is an example of this.
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More Information is Better!
True, but we're talking about the prices, not the user interface. Quit mixing those up, you're supposed to know what you're talking about. I don't deny the usefullness of the new markeplace, in fact I praise it, since it's MUCH better than the old one, but this has nothing to do with the tax.
That's all...for now. D:
