the wine contest not just push the price of wine up, but the grape price is terrible up also.
if the price of grape in the market of realm 2 is 600 caps, 20 x 600 = 12,000caps
now the wine price fall below 10,000 caps, so it not worth buying grape from market to make wine.
I have to admit that I've never paid much attention to the contests as I don't enter them anyway, but haven't there been contests where both realms had a different quality in the past?
As for it driving the prices of some items up, that happens with all contests :p
i've not seen it before where it costs more to produce the contest product if buying off the market than it does to sell it
By the time you have bought 20 grapes you are at a loss, before anything else.
Guess its helping the new players loads that get tutored into building fruit plantations
Its really great event of the wine competition. Due to that there is the increase the demand of the wine as well as grapes. The wine and grapes supplier can get much profit from it. Another thing is that people can enjoy that event too.