Unusuall rise of gold prices

[Eisenberg]

When im writing this, gold has reached 2.17 Eur (i can only assume that theres similar situation in US realms) while yearlier this week it was at around ~1.35 Eur. So iv been wondering what cused this process, is it massive baweave on chineese farmers ? Few ban reports on dmeonbuddy forums appeared right after gold prices started to rise dramatically, hence my reasoning that this might was just an tip of an iceberg. Or perhaps players are indeed so excited by x-pac announcement that they are clearing gold supplies faster than farmers can replenish it ?

 

[herpaderpaderp]

Bit of everything, the announcement has sent players wanting to level again, it seems their getting tighter on bans as well. I just had 2 mule accounts and 3 bots banned (funny tho 6 were running and only 3 got hit).

 

[tonari]

Well there is a banweave in china for sure, dunno about us and eu but the eu servers for some countries are having some sort of problems and people are getting dc every few mins.
Source Many disconnects today... - Forums - Diablo III

 

[bizzy1one]

Market was having a hard time keeping up with demand even with 4+ week stretch w/o a banwave.

Huge banwave happened .... huge spike in gold .... pretty easy to put those pieces together ^^.

If another comes next week .... could go to $3/50 or higher.

Some demand is definitely back .... will get even better closer the xpac gets.