The Consequences of Rare Maple Items

Unfortunately, Maplestory's economy runs on almost a pure capitalistic system. About the only things the government (Nexon, in this case) imposes are which items can or cannot be traded and tax rates.

They also control supply. If something is incredibly common, merchanters wouldn't be able to do anything about it, no matter how hard they tried.:f6:

Merchants don't raise prices, they cause them to tend to what they should be based on supply/demand rates.

Harharhar, like the times where they've bought out all the apples in the FM, then sold them for up to 1m over the rate before, causing massive inflation, yep, the natural trend right thar!