Maybe this will put some life into the economy too. Not all of us have eleven billion plat lying around.

DDO will be doing some server merges to help people find groups.

Over the last few months we have seen an increase in the number of players asking us to make it easier to find groups. Since grouping is such a core part of the DDO experience we looked at a variety of ways to make the grouping process easier for players of all levels. Various options were considered, but the best way to make a change that improves the situation for everyone is to concentrate active players on a smaller number of servers.

Read more at the DDO website.