Ding Dong, NI Is Dead

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I'll try to fit all these replies in a single post which is pretty difficult and looks really ugly on this forum

I'm not sure about the super rich really controlling the market.  I haven't seen much direct market manipulation.  However, I don't see how this is much different from any game or even real life.  The only way I can see of preventing this is developer interference, and I'm more of an advocate for free markets.

The people with an insane amount of wealth own all the scarce and most desired items. Your progress in the game is capped at a certain point despite having acquired the wealth to upgrade past that point because you have to rely on whether or not someone will sell to you. There's simply nothing you can do short of begging for them to sell besides waiting for the next drop or having to waste all your money paying a premium price for an item that can only depreciate. You don't see monopolization like this often in other games.

The only thing I have to say to this is....welcome to the regular distribution of wealth in a market. 1% Controls 90%. Deal with it.