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Originally Posted by Daradon
I'm still lost on your logic. Maybe it's me, maybe it's not, let me just figure it out here.
If the farmers are farming items, they still have to sell them. You said they are not real players (which I'm not sure I agree with, really isn't anyone who is playing for any reason a player?), but they will obviously have to sell them to real players. Therefore the good items end up in the real players hands anyway. What's the problem with that? Are you just not happy because some 'real players' will be buying and you can't? I'm not sure that will be much of a problem because ultimately, if there are so many items out there, they won't be worth anything to sell, and therefore won't be farmed.
Lastly, if it truly means a noticable amount of premium items in the game, wouldn't that just mean there are more to trade to players such as yourself from legit players? Obviously the auction system must work for everyone if people can buy and sell in real money or game currency.
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Basically:
Blizzard is legitimizing the market. This makes buying and selling easier. Making selling easier brings more suppliers into the market.
More supply means more farmed items, at lower prices. Yes, lower prices offsets part of the effect that legitimizing the market has on quantity supplied - this is what allows to find a new equilibrium. But that equilibrium is higher quantities at lower prices.