The price of gold is dropping because of the bot's, there is not so much in terms of hacked credit cards for apex because trion has a system in place that limits the apex you can buy and its much harder to use / find stolen credit cards than just using bots or hacked accounts. There was a ton of HACKED ACCOUNTS most of which was during headstart and those had the 18,000 founder's credits, and with those accounts they bought (seems like) workers compensations and sold them at abysmal rates for days (Literally putting up 20 stacks of like 20,30 of them). They even messed up a lot of the time by setting the starting bid for a stack of 10,20 to be like 4g and the buyout to be like 40(10) or 80(20)g lol, ton of profit to be made there if you were good with winning auction timers (or had a program that did it.).
What is going to happen in my opinion (and very quickly in the coming weeks), is that AH prices are going to become very very inflated because of all the bot's and trion doing nothing about them. I quickly see a huge rise in the prices of Apex (especially once patron status start's running out for people who bought the silver founders packs) and as more people hitting higher level and wanting a subscription, and then eventually basically everything else on the AH. Gold will keep dropping in price (probably even to the point of like $5 for 100g or maybe even more) if trion does nothing about the bot's, but the AH will reflect that drop in price with huge inflation
This post was edited by Akima18 on Sep 27 2014 09:23am