What's causing all the inflation?

Please read iCollect's post on the other page, as all of your "guesses" are confirmed, er, I should say WERE, before you posted.

OK, let me just clarify something so you wont feel any more pain in your behind. While your so-called "confirmations" pretty much what you're reading on a public forum, without actual actual personal knowledge (IE if I am not sure), it will remain as a guess. I dont feel obliged to re-iterate heresays nor wanting to say I know, or it's absolute when I am not sure. Keep your subjective thoughts to yourself. Unless there's absolute proof, I am entitled to my opinion and my belief and when I am not 100% sure, I'll state so.

I still believe that merchants have helped legits with their inflation, but I do see your point about hesitant legits shocked into buying meso by the inflation creating more chaos in the game as well. The only thing I could say to counter that negativity would be hoping that legits understand what meso buying is before they make a decision.

Inflation creates demands. Demands for meso. Average legit players can only stock up so much. The rate of earning meso is still pretty much the same. Monsters doesnt drop any more due to inflation. So when there're high demands for meso, you can pretty much guess what many are going to do.

Also, it's a bit absurd to think mechants and meso sellers are opposing entities. Merchants target profits, meso sellers targets conversions. More meso injected into the economy means higher inflation. This benefits both sides. Merchanters creates demands for meso, and meso sellers satisfy those demands. Together hand in hand, they're working nicely. It's close enough to assume that they're one big entity working in different factions.

If they're to compete against each other, given the current unlimited meso funds assumption from meso sellers, they'll wipe out merchants easily with their buying power.