That's because the people themselves exploited GWs first system of gold drops.

They still are (Go into the Marketplace, Look at all the freaking macroing Mo/Me, It's so depressing T_T), And still they have thousands to play with :]

I liked that they decided to make it a rule to trade only through the trade chat, We can almost get a half decent conversation in the half empty places :]... I've never been into this money making/farming stuff anyways... so I'm a little dead when it comes to reason here x-x;

I wonder what kind of neat things await the PvE only skills, Hopefully something useful instead of gimicky things that discover stuff :[...