I've been a player of this game for a long, long time.
If anyone else remembered in 2010, there was a character wipe for somewhat minor game changes.
Fair enough, item duping is bad. But why not simply remove them, or try to counteract any market inflation/deflation like how the GMs mass dropped rubies in 2008(or 9?) which effectively dropped to grossly inflated 8 mil ruby price to 2 mil?
The market of the game should not be a reason to wipe out characters.
I would estimate about 80-90% of the game population gave up after the 2010 wipe. I won't straight up say it wiill destroy the game, but it will have drastic consequences.
Please be practical.