Chapter 12
Market War III
Market War II was a cold war, but it was a preview of the pressure building up to Market War III. Players were obviously boiling with contempt about the way RICH was manipulating the market and forcing others to lose money. The only thing they could do to compete was to try selling items that RICH did not sell, or try to copy the RICH guild methods. They couldn’t copy the methods, but they could move to other markets. There was only one place left to hide.
RICH avoided the high-end level of the market. Anything that required an enriched fire essence was kept in the guild storage for guild members to borrow, and RICH would rarely sell those items. But the stockpile of enriched essences had become so large that I could ...
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