06-08-2012, 09:23 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-08-2012, 09:27 AM by FireIceTalon.)
(06-07-2012, 04:19 PM)ima_nerd Wrote:(06-06-2012, 11:39 PM)RedRadical Wrote: The gold sink will NOT fix the inflation, and will almost certainly be completely ineffective - mark my words. The fact of the matter is, you can put all the gold sinks in the world there, and the people who control the games economy laugh, and laugh, and laugh some more, because there is no "regulation" on what they can charge. Do you really honestly believe gold sinks are going to deter, much less fix inflation? Lets get serious here, it aint gonna happen.
You have an annoying habit of attempting to rebut someone's post with absolutely NO logical or rational statements. If you remove currency from the economy, inflation will at LEAST slow down or, depending on the magnitude of gold sinks, reverse. I somehow have the feeling that you aren't a capitalist () but the basics hold true here: if someone is charging so much for an item that no one can afford it, it won't sell and the seller will be forced to lower their prices. It's a really simple system. Changes will take a little while to shake through the system and let everything settle out but the ridiculous prices WILL come down.
You talk about regulating prices a lot but have yet to actually propose even the basic outline of how to implement such a system. Have you even thought about how one would go about it? My guess is no.
Blizz WANTS it to be this way though - they want people to be forced to use the AH, because it will increase their profit margins. Inferno drops and difficulty are systematically in place as they are to reduce your farming rate, both for gold and items, so you will eventually - yes, you guessed it - be forced to use the RMAH. If you want better items and to beat Inferno at least.
So no, I am quite rational and logical here, because I see the system for what it really is. I'm sorry if you dont.
Gold sinks will change the system very little if at all. Are the super expensive items selling in the AH currently? Probably not - but that doesn't mean prices are going to come down. The only people buying stuff in the millions are other wealthy players. Adding gold sinks will do nothing but make the poor players even poorer - while having virtually no effect on the rich ones. The whole system is one giant monopoly.
And yes, I'm about as Capitalist as Hitler was a human rights activist. Oh wait....
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)