People tend not to keep items lower than level 20 because you generally switch weapons quite fast because you level really fast at those levels. Buying a weapon for each level there is pretty much a waste of money.
For the higher levels, over time players have gotten a sense of camaraderie over other players of the same realm. To some of us, we'd rather give items away than trade them for gold because we want to help our realm mates and make the realm better. A lot of us also keep good items for our clan mates.
While in theory lowering the buying prices of merchants can kick-start the economy to move, the game's mechanics just simply won't encourage trading. There is no viable market place. Players can't sell their goods unless they are online as well. The items do not show their value in gold unless you pay a visit to a merchant and preview their selling prices and even then, the amount of gold shown will not reflect the items' true prices. There is no standard of prices so chances are, players will either pay too much for an item or pay too less. Either way, that's bad with so little gold currently in circulation.
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