I made a pretty good amount of money in Luclin to pop. Not enough to be rich or anything, but I was in my early 20s and able to just play games all day while living alone, with plenty of time left over for raids. The height of it was the redone CT getting released, but there were other places that were surprisingly good. Chardok, ect. In CT there was lots of super high value drops, and some of the tradeskill items were pretty much best in slot for normies, and literally nobody else was making them. Plus it wasn't that hard to 6 man the big slime boss, and it's drops could go for close to half a mil. Just took an hour of grinding on him to do it. My time in EQ making money collapsed suddenly with a coin dupe I believe. Plat lost like 80+% of its value in a couple days.
Back when I played EVE, I remember people were theorizing "was there any trillionaires in the game". Meanwhile I was chortling at that, cause I deposited like 700 billion a month to the alliance's cash cow, and I was only a fraction of the monopoly we ran. I was already rich before that. I figured out how to exploit scan mechanics to essentially insta locate even the hardest to find plexes. Built a cheesy as fuck combo of cheap and shitty stabber kitted for super speed to kite all the enemies, and went in with a frigate kitted for insane dps. Flew past all the NPCs and just took out the boss, as for some reason that was the only thing you had to kill to beat those plexes. Could easily make 10s of billions per day if you got on a roll.
Eve definitely made some people lots of money. If my freighter with the 700b had gotten exploded, it would have been a 50-60,000 dollar loss at the time.
