What's causing all the inflation?

Thanks for the post! Read the whole thing, and really makes a lot of sense now that you've highlighted what's going on.

To those who dislike what they've done, please understand that while you can choose to get 500m EXP a day if you really tried or whatnot, so too do merchanters choose to play the financial game as they please. I have no doubt that several, especially Scanian and Beran merchanters, have tens of billions of legit, merchanted meso (though hundreds is pushing my beliefs), meaning they can choose to spend it as they wish - and thus, change the economy at whim. Be thankful they haven't constantly screwed over the market. The main reason why their GFA plan worked so well is because there are few enough big FMers in GMS that their community is the tightest-knit of any that can possibly exist.

Now, while iCollect said the merchanters simply took an objective advantage of an opportunity to make billions of mesos, there is actually some good out of what they've done for all legit, average-wealth players like the majority of us: they're deflating the effect the hacking meso farmers could have on the economy. By choosing to inflate NOW, the essential Mapler items like good equips and scrolls are not in the hands of quickly rich, hacking Meso farmers or buyers, but are in the hands of those who truly run the global markets. Sure, they're choosing to buy and sell them as things go on, meaning a percentage of them will land in the hands of the illegit, but had they not inflated GFAs (and by default, item prices across the markets), the illegit would have full choice of whatever they wanted, meaning more of these items would be in their control. The FMers are, in a nutshell, devaluing the meso in order to make a quick buck but are subconsciously diminishing the purchasing power of hackers.

I agree that it may not be the most ethically sound plan, and I don't condone inflating/monopolizing a market to make it difficult for the average person (I'm extremely liberal), but I do think it's important to recognize that, in a game like MapleStory where monopoly is easy and legal, sooner or later it would happen, and the best the average player can do is be mentally prepared to take advantage of, or at least stay afloat, the financial maelstrom.

THANK YOU. I like the way you think haha. I was just about to post after reading posts about people flaming merchants. And yeah it isn't that hard to make 10 bil+ legitly. Just gotta know what your doing.