I don't think so. I hope not. The stuff would not be called "good quality" if it would be standard and everyone had it. It would not be worth hunting at all, if the stuff would be so common. It would be like hunting for shrapnel... And that's why the price is, as you say, "stupid", because it has high demand which is what we want.
Giving it all to one person is also not what we want, but, it's poor programming that is too late to correct, unfortunately for us all.
Well that depends if your looting an item to sell it, or looting it to play the game. If you can't get an item to use for your pro levels you can't play the game. Sure there needs to be a balance of sorts, but surely if its impossible to loot a useful item in game in 12 or 13+ years then surely something is very wrong.
We have a situation that some people in the game buy stuff at any price just to own it with no intention of using it as well. That unique taming ring was a prime example, the owner didn't use it, just lent it out. I skilled 60 whipper without it, but that's besides the point. I refused to go over 15K for it, and it was only a 2 person bid war.
I'm at the point now, that I don't care how many items there are and how many drop,
I want loads of level 60 - 80 weapons I can choose to play with, and have some fun with. If it has a resale value of 100 ped, so what...because everything goes to TT in the end anyway.
At the moment I'm using an Adjusted det sword, that I bought about 6 months ago from auction (maybe longer). It's a lovely sword but I feel I need an upgrade now. If its near impossible to loot stuff, why would you want to pay 20K to 80K for a weapon? The weapon has no value, if if doesn't "get" you value.
If its just about eco, that's not enough. Sure its nice to skill, I love skiling, but there needs to be more excitement than that.
The issue is "most" of the players I know can't get hold of decent items. So where is their inspiration coming from then? What's going to inspire them?
This
"buy my sh*t at my price I set, or shut up"...mentally is so 2006. Those days are well gone.
Anyway it will be interesting to see what MA does next year. The game needs some serious change, there's hints of that filtering though....but we will see.
Rick
ps: MA dumped a mountain of rings on the market right. Useful too... I got a few perfected in the end. If they do that with weapons I'll be happy. Sure there will be a few specials one...fine, but at least there will be loads of stuff to have fun with that players want to use.