Wen I scroll through all I can see is marble all over again
This is nothing like marble. This is a balance change that has ruffled a few feathers (welcome to Mir) and perhaps more importantly changed the economics of GG - which lets be real here - was always happening under peoples noses. The arguments in this thread against the changes are that the wealthy of the wealthy are able to now buy whatever they want and get unlimited gold via selling to other people.
What you fail to realise is they were already doing this via gold buying - but instead were hurting the economy by doing so. All jamie has done is put the money into his own pocket rather than gold sellers - which damages their business. What you'll start to see is a rough ratio of gold to GG appear and a new economy will build on that.
Marble was a catastrophic failure due to charms and the way they completely altered the entire game, be it through quadrupling the damage of FF/Metstrike or making yourself immortal through agility stats. They were dumb, even Jamie admits that. He tried something new and it didn't go well, **** happens. Unforunately the server was already on the decline due to CORE forcing people to quit the game by farming them for items over and over and over, and so charms were the final nail in the coffin.
What you have here is just yet another Mirstenders episode, so grab your buckets of popcorn and enjoy the **** show.