my assumptions:
- majority of classic player base wouldn't be playing retail anyways
- majority of classic player base wont spend much time in retail
- every single retail player will log in to classic for at least 1h just out of curiosity
- there will not be two-games players, this means that eventually a person will either play retail or classic, never both (runescape 3 vs. oldschool logic)
- some classic players will be willing to farm in retail with the sole point of buying tokens
- all of retail player base that remains in retail will keep their activities as they are
- as time passes, classic players will not be able to keep up with new methods of gold-making, specially the complex ones and/or the ones that require a big setup/reputation/investment... so they will be jumping into the quickest money printer they see and that's usually current patch material (either via gathering or group farms)
you will not see classic players log in retail and doing flips to pay for their subscription; you will not see classic players log in retail and camping the AH for cheap mats and constant undercuts; they will not do shuffles; etc.
so, imo, in retail, specifically on easy gathering, on avg, will be a raise in the supply WITHOUT a raise in demand
how big this imbalance will be, IDK, but we all know that supply/demand is a unstopabble rule in economy, so if its either gonna be a 10% drop in prices or 50% is hard to say, but a drop will happen (assuming my assumptions are correct, of course)
