merlin6and17 wrote:
What an alarmist attitude. Yes, prices will truely reflect a "global" price list. So what? It will even out, and wont change dramatically from what one can find now, word to world.
Prove me wrong.
Everything on this topic is speculation, you know that as well as I. We will have to wait and see how the update goes.
On the topic of rares still being rares, remember that currency is simply a means by which we compare two items. For example a party hat is worth 200,000,000 more gp than a wooden shield. But it may be only worth 175,000,000 more than a santa hat.
In terms of Rares if prices fluctuate wildly on smaller items, it will be more likely that prices go up on rares this is because due to the lack of mass trading going on with rares, the rares prices are more stable, in theory. The equivalent to this IRL is precious metals, which are often used in hard times as a safe haven. Note that gold, platinum, and silver have much more stable prices, in a single day, than the market. The same is true of rares in Runescape.
In this way it is much more likely that rares, assuming a large fluctuation will become more valuable amongst those who want to protect their money. Still their prices will rise and fall much more slowly then the rest of the market.
It is important to note...that most people cannot afford rares and thus they have a much smaller influence on the market and are less influenced by the market than common items like yews, coal, and lobbies. Still even a small price change in yews, coal, or lobbies, can severely affect the market, causing players to reinvest their money, or buy other items (willows, silver, gold, fish, or swordies). Much like the Dow Jones irl, these "ticket items" can be used to see the overall trends of the market, they are thus indicators of how the market is doing. It is possible to get a market where these items become so cheap that the inflation in the prices of resources causes getting skills up to become ridiculously easy, and thus much of the motivation for playing, being better than someone else, is removed.