The Pawn Shop is intended as a successor to limitless player-to-player trading, which sufferred from cheating and poor market balance.

It provides a fairer, more secure way to buy and sell assets. Items cannot be sold for real-world money or transferred between accounts owned by the same player, helping to prevent abuse. At the same time, the Pawn Shop offers instant sales and ensures that every player has equal access to the marketplace.

No, because you're selling assets to the game, the Pawn Shop doesn't consume your Trade Limit.

For the most part, Pawn Shop prices are not set manually. They are determined automatically based on an asset's market value.

There are also minimum and maximum price limits in place. These are mainly intended to protect the game from temporary bugs, although they may occasionally take effect during periods of unusually high inflation.

Players can overbid on listings in the Auction House to push prices higher. However, for heavily traded assets, it is unlikely that a single player can influence prices for long because of the large number of assets being traded and the amount of money required to keep overbidding.

If an asset's price rises above its normal level, more players will sell that asset to the Pawn Shop. This increases the number of those assets entering the Auction House, raising supply. Over time, the increased supply will cause prices to fall back down.