Guild Wars 2

Clark Skinner.4902:

People spread lies to make prices shift so that they can buy/sell for profit.

Their profit come from other players via dishonesty. Not friendly behaviour.

Also, it results in more wealth removed from the game due to fees. There are more than enough gold sinks making us poor, and for the rich to remove 30g from fellow players to keep 15g for themselves is not good.

The other case with rich people buy all of a certain item up and reposting them all for a higher price just makes an insanely rich person richer and they leech from the rest of us. If you have that much gold, you could stop using the TP completely and still never spend it all. The game to them is hoarding as much gold as possible, which is sinister considering it doesn’t do them any good but does the rest of the players bad.

“for the rich to remove 30g from fellow players to keep 15g for themselves is not good.”

people like things now not later. that “rich person” is doing you a favor, he is keeping the buy now and sell now prices within 30%. If the market were stable without him, then he wouldn’t be able to make a profit. Fact is buyers don’t want to sit around being out bid and sellers don’t want to be undersold. From my observation of the market, the main people waiting with buy and sell orders are the “evil market manipulators”. Without them you would see larger margins and higher costs for buying or selling now. The markets would also be much more volatile.