It was more expensive. I was there. Right now, I’m trying to buy a chocolate cake for 500 TBT. When I first joined, you can’t even get one for less than 3,500 TBT. The candies, there used to be four (blue, green, red, and yellow), and blue candies used to worth 4,000 TBT (green candies worth 1,500 TBT). But not everything was more expensive then. The Beach Party items sold for less than 500 TBT. The TBT Marketplace was a lot more active back then.
I would also like to let you know about the changes in the TBT exchange rate. Right now, you can get 100 TBT for every 20 million Bells traded. Back then, it was 100 TBT for 5 million Bells. At first (before I joined), it was 100 TBT for 100,000 Bells. We’ve gone a long way.