I understand the purpose and do feel its necessary. Prior to the molt-down the economy was bad. Things were way overpriced. Even with the prices all of your toons hit gold cap. I'm allot more of a liberal spender now. Only 4 months of play time on icecrown since last gold squish and I had to dump a little more than 50k. Only 3ish months of play time on frostmourne ending before uldar release starting from nothing have 7 not well geared 80's (frostmourne started level 1 this year if any didn't know) earned enough to buy a mammoth and a hole bag. All 7 have epic fly with cold weather. All of this was regular play not gaming AH. I'm not bragging just trying to demonstrate how overflowing the gold is. Why do you think blizzard added more expensive gold sink items every xpac. We literally pick gold up off the ground here. I hate losing the gold so I spend it.