Another great Classic experience

[maskedmelon]

Originally Posted by Blitzers [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Hell take a look at what the fast food industry is about to do with cashiers, you have been replaced by a touch screen, so much for your cries for a higher minimum wage just cost u your job

*nods* zealous suppliers attempt to extract a price for services (labor) that is higher than the consumer (businesses) are willing to pay so the consumer (businesses) goes elsewhere and voila enter the Burger Builder 5000, serving fresher food more quickly! Nevermore shan't I worry of hair or spittle or random debris in my foods. ^^

[fadetree]

The price of something in EQ is 100% dependent on what people are willing to spend on available items

? Price is always dependent on what people are willing to pay.

[Cecily]

I'm not happy with how our friendly banter ended up going, so I deleted my replies to you. Please do the same if you want this to not get completely derailed.

[Blitzers]

Originally Posted by Cecily [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm not happy with how our friendly banter ended up going, so I deleted my replies to you. Please do the same if you want this to not get completely derailed.

I don't understand why or how it may be derailed. Seems like a perfectly genuine conversation to me.

[falendar]

so basically instead of amazon you want traveling merchants. i'd rather have amazon

[Blitzers]

There was no Amazon/eBay in the medieval period which this mmorpg is loosely based. I know there wasn't any dragons or orcs either. Your entitlement mmo is made by Blizzard not Verant. Omg maybe we should all have tanks and fighter jets since easy mode is all we want in life. Freaking want it now millinials make me sick.

[maskedmelon]

Originally Posted by Cecily [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Unless, like, everyone bought out the reasonably priced items and your ripoff priced item sold because it was the last one on market. There's no difference in these situations.

One of the biggest differences that I see between a broker system and the one that we have here is that the former denies ambitious/hardworking new players the option of making money this way. It compels all new players into equal poverty. I would not object to implementing the private shops from the bazaar, but without the broker/search functions (i.e. Players had to manually check each shop).

[Blitzers]

Originally Posted by Cecily [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Unless, like, everyone bought out the reasonably priced items and your ripoff priced item sold because it was the last one on market. There's no difference in these situations.

There's huge difference, here's why u miss it. Stop looking at the end result as the ultimate objective because it is not always about the end result which still would be different anyways but for arguements sake let's say the end result is the same. The "immersion" interaction, the legwork holds value in the "no bazaar" EC tunnel economy. In the bazaar version the immersion is lost especially the value of bringing said item to market. The fewer people willing to devote time and effort into bringing said item to market the higher the value of that item.

It's simple economics 101. The bazaar is was created by the devs aka government intervention to stimulate the economy, unfortunately the unintended consequences were all your bank junk lost value. It also gained value making it more accessible but that too had unintended consequences as well. What I'm saying is that the interaction/immersion held more value in the game then trying to stimulate the economy.

[Blitzers]

Originally Posted by Cecily [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Sorry, I wasn't a business major so I missed economics 101. Suppose I should defer to people like yourself who have had a proper education on the impact of immersion in virtual economies.

No do your own research, and I wasnt a business major either, these things I speak of are "self evident" in society. Unfortunately communist/socialist/fascist "philosophy has rooted itself deep into our educational systems and things that are self evident you have been taught or subconsciously nudged into hating and rejecting.

It really is a sad state in which our society/government/corporations has bred upon our own people.

[maskedmelon]

I think that speaks poorly of our educators. I did read an entertaining dissertation from a peeress or at Harvard on the Proper balance of "bull" and what he dubbed "cow" it's converse. The whole thing arose from either suspension or expulsion of a student for taking an exam (that he aced) in a class that he was not enrolled in. It was a case of some impressive deductive reasoning and robust stroke of luck ^^