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[General JRPGs]Has there ever been a good explanation offered for why the quality of equipment for sale at a shop scales with the shop's distance from the protagonist's home town?

Why doesn't the high end stuff get exported every where?
gpt
Generally, the protagonist starts off in a hum-drum town and goes to bigger places. It makes sense you could get better stuff in a major city then a small town, and better equipment then that in a magical pocket dimension of enlightened elves.

Generally you only get high-end weapons in weird places in the endgame. At that point, the planet is usually visibly ending so the demand for powerful weapons suddenly went *way* up everywhere at once.