Economy manipulation

The forcing of the base currency from Exalts to Divines by the usual suspects is market manipulation pure and simple. Divines are not common enough to be a base currency for the average player. It's only been done to inflate the value of Divines after they were all bought up by the bad actors behind the scheme.

Resist it - use Exalts.

there is a currency exchange, if someone wants to sell something for 1 div, thats just a roundabout way of saying 50ex. Is it kinda cringe? Ya, but it doesn't make the item they have magically worth more or less, theres no difference if the item is worth 30ex, but hes asking for 50ex instead of 1 div.

When items are only sold only in one currency it increase the value of that currency. The relatively extreme low supply of divines is exacerbating this issue. The large supply of exalts make for a good base currency. The currency exchange does not solve using divine as base currency right now.

OP has good point about the economics of currency. See the US dollar being used for oil for a real world example of increasing the value of the dollar by driving artificial demand through needing the currency to buy oil. This is that concept in a different framework with different supply and demand and its wrecking the markets right now.

I assume what they said about the usual bad actors is correct too, RMT highly distorts most virtual markets.

The fact that the RMTers have enough keys to get into the playtest lends credence to my theory they are cooperating either with streamers/content creators like RMTdog or among the longtime supporter accounts.

$30USD is a pretty big entry fee for an account that's ultimately going to get banned for selling and advertising to players. And yet I still saw their spams in the global channels.

GGG had staff that has links to people involved with RMT. You can google it. There are no consequences for spending money rmting.

The amount of money made by people in early access is massive. People already paying real money.

I don't trade so I do not care, but holy fuck, are the RMTers bold. I even get sponsored ads on youtube for their websites

Someone is making big money.

GGG probably looked into banning for rmt, realized 40% of the playerbase is rmting and decided it wasn't worth a loss in buisness.

Half the people I know, rmt in game. No ban. They buy from the same seller every league without fail.