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10-29-2017, 02:59 PM
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It's that you made a post refuting someone and if someone asks you "What do you mean?" You just reply with "You're just wrong, sorry if you don't believe me". Not a very engaging discussion and worthy of mockery.
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10-29-2017, 03:19 PM
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10-29-2017, 03:34 PM
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10-29-2017, 03:56 PM
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10-29-2017, 06:39 PM
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To the point of fungis rising, I honestly believe they have been rare enough that all it took was for 3-5 people to bump the price up on them to make them seem to have gone up in worth. Fatjoe and Co. seem to have stopped their fungi tunic farm machine awhile back, and since then you don't see a fungi hitting the market every other hour. (Slight exaggeration, but there were far more fungis being farmed and sold 1-2 months and further back.) Not to say only Fatjoe was farming fungis for sales but I just noticed him more than others in the past. As for Seafuries, I feel these have nothing to do with prices going up or down. Some things have gone up lately, while others have gone down. Mostly high end items seem to be more expensive than in the past while low tier items have dropped. Seafuries being nerfed wouldn't have this kind of impact on item prices imo. | |||
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10-29-2017, 05:08 PM
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Well for one everquest is too small of an economy to see supply and demand hold up reliably. it's too easy for something like one man on earth owning every pig on earth (didn't that actually happen once or some shit in the 1910s?). It's too easy to setup an epic MQ cartel that price fixes to keep prices high, not even necessarily for profit, but to justify their own interest in the task with their guild in the first place.
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10-30-2017, 01:36 AM
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Virtual world economics are actually kind of interesting, especially when they interact with real world money (not p1999 of course).
Its true that one of the fun things about virtual world economies is that not all logical premises that exist in the real world necessarily exist. I.E. Just because something works a certain way in the real world doesn't mean that it will work that way in the virtual world. In the end, if you want to prove something about p1999's economy you have to demonstrate it in the data...which isn't exactly easy to gather or control for. In any case, I'm not sure what the poster means by saying that there isn't a supply and demand of goods and services in p1999. It certainly seems to me that there is. If he is saying something slightly more subtle, like the real world expectations about supply and demand don't exist that is possible...but it wouldn't be totally analogous imo. There is a limited production of goods, limited demand for goods, etc. Since the problem of scarcity exists in our p1999 virtual world I'm not sure what reason there would be to throw out supply and demand as reasonable describers of p1999's virtual economy. | ||
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10-30-2017, 02:14 AM
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10-31-2017, 12:58 PM
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When you look at these three things separately, it's hard to see it as a pure supply and demand system, when the supply for some items simply doesn't reflect in the prices some people are paying. Supply and demand factors in, sure. But more than that is the factor of what people think it's worth, regardless of the demand or its supply. | |||
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