Do rares ever actually raise in price?

[Father 2h]

All rares are bound to raise even more in price too. They are unobtainable items.

But as rares rise, gp lowers.

 

[I Eric I]

The dollar value hasn't changed but the in game value is absurd now. Sell one blue as mentioned and you can buy anything you want in game with little effort. In comparison to say back when they were in the 20-30m range and people would often swap dchains for purples and yellows.

 

[Pockets]

Not true, gold value IN GAME is becoming less also, 100m use to be able to buy you BRAND new gear. (When bandos came out)

Now a days all the brand new gear is 5b. (When nex sets came out) - Perfect example.

That's just one aspect of the value of gold. The cost of runes has actually gone down, as have many potions and other daily supplies.

 

[valoriane]

The prices of rares will rise in terms of GP, no doubt. The question, though, is how far GP prices will plummet. Eventually, I see them going to $0.05-$0.10 or below - $0.01 per mil, for example. In this case, the price of rares, in real cash, would only increase if the GP value soared above 500b, which, I think, is unrealistic.

Therefore, I would sell rares if I had any.

 

[warriorpkcrunk]

rares go up Gp goes down so its around the same worth in $

 

[JIGL0JAY]

This is true. Normally people who say you make money from holding partyhats are legit players in the game though. In their case, it is true that you get more and more gp as you hold partyhats.

There was a thread on this a few months back where someone tried to propose partyhats as a real life investment, but it was fairly quickly challenged by the changing price of gold.

However, there are some points in the game's existence like you said that money could have been made from buying/selling them. These occurred when the price of gold and gold for partyhats were not changing at geometrically complementary rates.

What I'm thinking though, is this. Let's say you held onto that party hat, and as stated, you gain more gold through holding onto it. But, after waiting for a while. Let's say you held onto a purple and it went from like 200m to 1b. Then you sold it, and held onto that money. What if trade limits and whatnot were reinstated? Wouldn't that make prices a bit more? [I think that's what you're saying in the last paragraph].

It would be like investing in a currency as it's inflating, hoping that it will crash. It would have to be an ultra long-term investment.