economy heading for ruin....

If everything deflated, then that 8m an hour cost for mages will go from "I can pay this no prob" to "that's a lot of money. O_O"

8m per hour is only $1.20 from a meso selling site. Do you really think hackers are introducing pure items and no mesos? Of course not. They're flooding the market with hacked mesos too, it just takes longer because they want to make a bit of profit on them by selling it to leechers.