Actually, in a way it did. A lot of the newcomers had a sudden burst of gold far higher than many of us had ever seen due to the massive amounts they traded, and at the same time had no idea of the worth of many items here. Having so much gold a few people started spending INSANE amounts for certain items causing prices to suddenly shoot up on them. Note that after a few people did large gold trades from ATL that many of the power scroll prices nearly doubled, and a few commodities are already going for 2-3 times what they were going for 6 months ago. It's minor at this point still but a few people being "hyper-rich" tends to inflate the prices of anything they would normally buy for everyone. Who's going to sell a 120 magery for 1.5 mil now that it's known there's a few people on the shard who would gladly pay 5-6 mil?