well i can see the good and bad in having a currency. i personally dislike it. u can have items well worth much more than the items u r trading for, and yet just because it isnt a 290, they say no.
but if they took the currency away, it would be item for item. but worth of those items would be hard to determine. u couldnt say a shako is worth a 290 (i dont know how much it is really worth). what would u say?? how could a person determine the worth?? well we have 290's. so many are worth certain items. but i still dont see why an item worth 2x 290's shouldnt be traded for another item worth 2x 290's just because they arent actually 290's. and prices become extremely unreasonable if a new item or runeword comes out. look at 6 soc eth CB's. before the patch they were just cool because they were rare. after the patch they become worth something. and runes, o those lovely runes, it is nearly impossible to obtain one. and answere me this, why is a vex worth more than a zod?? zod is rarer, and actually has a use other than for a runeword. but i understand that vex is used for much more runewords, but zod is in most of the really good ones.
this is all my personal opinions. just read them and dont flame me plz. lol