Originally Posted by
Energizeric
Keep in mind STS is selling 10 essences for 10 plat. Based on that price, I'd say that if plat was the only way to acquire them, the price on the market in gold would become somewhere around 15-20k. Then once you buy those, you would still need to craft them into a gem which takes many hours.
If STS hopes to sell any of these for plat, then they need to keep the rarity of essences dropping in check. Because if they are too common then who would spend plat to buy them?
Over the past 48 hours we have seen the price of gems drop all the way down to around 25k. If it drops much lower then nobody is going to be interesting in buying them for plat, so I would expect STS to make sure the price stays higher if they hope to make any sales.