Do video games (pic related) prove that capitalism is the best form of economy? If you work hard for something, and beat a dungeon, boss, etc. you keep the spoils. It is not distributed to Joe Retard at level 1 who did nothing to deserve it. No, you worked hard and spent time to get it so you keep it. There is no redistribution of wealth. If you want something, you work for it. If you don't wanna work for it, you buy it from someone who is willing to work for it.
The answer is yes, then. You shit your pants occasionally
Do you also clap a lot?
Aaron Bennett
Not really. The most efficient way to clear raids is to have gear distributed evenly among all your raiders as giving the guy who barely has enough gear to enter the raid a piece of gear from whatever raid will increase his usefulness more than if you give it to the guy who just gets +3agi from it and has almost all BiS. Unless they somehow changed how raids work and you can solo queue and everyone gets a piece of gear, if so just ignore me.
Andrew Hernandez
> It is not distributed to Joe Retard at level 1 who did nothing to deserve it No but it is distributed to the GM's girlfriend who did nothing but witter down the mic and stand in fire a lot.
Leo Martin
yea they changed to individual looting system for next xpac
Hunter Martinez
Not for guild raids senpai, just pugs
Splitting gear and distributing is still the best way to progress faster, however OP:s thesis still applies.
Just because you split your gear around in your raid doesn't mean its socialism, it's more like a company and a team effort
James Kelly
Yeah, if it's within the party, they did their part too, it's assumed. Nothing you earned as a team is going to someone who didn't work for it.
Justin Morgan
I actually was an officer of a for-profit guild during cataclysm. Pyramid scheme "leveling guild". We had a max level guild with perk for bonus gold to go to guild bank, had around 100-200 people on at a time, made a steady 10-15k a week not including weekly guild dungeon/raid bonuses. All I had to really do was raid lead and constantly spam invites on people in the 70-85 level bracket. We never really "took" any gold from people, it was just bonus gold made out of nowhere.
Mason Long
RuneScape was a good example of economy. I never really played any other ones
Lincoln Brooks
It was like that in vanilla and TBC.
Now it's just shit. Raids for everyone, clear old raids in 5 minutes get hundreds of gold.
They made into a fucking Facebook app
Jonathan Morales
Classic and perhaps TBC wow makes your argument. Not these days, please choose another screenshot.
Angel Nguyen
Remember that the auction house is important too, because people dont know you could look up on thottbot where certain items have a chance to get those wanted enchantment thingys.
so knowledge here is needed, that said there is a form of socialism in the raids. when you need gear, like fire resist gear, people usually have a guildbank where everyone tries to contribute to the weakest member can have a piece, that way everyone wins since that person are now better in the raid.
William Watson
Runescape economy is awesome, even with the Grand Exchange it's pretty solid. You really need to grind if you plan on making dem shekels.
EVE is another good example.
Jeremiah Torres
Was there ever a mmorpg where you could manipulate the economy in the same way wallstreet did? or just manipulate it in some way to try crash it.
Ian Sanders
Yes (with some limitations, of course).
And it was quite unanimous the exodus of accounts that occurred right after they relaxed raiding to being something less than a 9-5 profession that devoids you of a life outside of your desk and massively expanding waistline.
People work their asses off (blue collar/white collar, doesn't matter) and a majority of the populace won't realize that 401k and other retirement funds will simply vanish during old age until it's too late. Those that do understand this ahead of time (rich folks by today's standards) supplement their retirement with social security by way of tax brackets hiding their wealth.
If everyone thought of the home they purchased as retirement, instead of investment funds that expand/contract on the whim of a market exchange, then we'd be in a much better place across the board.
Your home is the only way you can truly be "sovereign" in a financial sense. Even then, though, you have to pay taxes on it until the day you die (lest you live in a state without property tax).
Ryan Barnes
EVE sounds awesome in theory. Looks incredibly complicated and a massive time dump though.
Ryan Johnson
Runescape is a better example >07 >Free market, booming and lively game
>08 >Globalization of the market >Closed market, dying, has gone down since then.
>?? >Free market eventually returns >Some recovery but too late after the closed market's damages >Globalized market still in action, although it makes it easier and cheaper, it kills the soul.
DECENTRALIZE THE EXCHANGE SEERS BANK NOW
Luke Gomez
>master looter
Relax, casual
Christian Sullivan
wow the best fuck commie cock suckers
Lincoln Sanders
that's welfare the game, everybody is special the game, because of it, the game sucks and everybody is against each other, there's no community anymore
Jacob Cook
The difference is that in a guild gear has to be split over let's say 50 Raiders, but the guild leader doesn't get more of the gold dropped or loot, that is what happens in companies, if you mean by spreading wealth more equal within a company then yes, but in most internationals the base workers (doing physical labor) earn about 50-600 times less, yet if they all leave the same day, the company will lose more profit compared to if the board of directors stops, as the work sales and running order are still maintained.
Gavin Lewis
I remember making billions in Runescape when the exchange came out, flipping was the shit!
Jack Cook
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Parker Ramirez
no because shitters who do bad on dps or hps or whatever get same gear as anyone else in the raid
Brandon Evans
Never got into EVE online that much, only a couple of months as a small time pirate not trading.
However I did hear at some point that some business educations would use EVE as a learning tool because of the advanced market system.
But if its true or not I dunno. Cannot be arsed looking it up, but EVE is probably the closest you get anyway.
Nathan Evans
To compare my last point wow, the guild leader and officers can quit, but the Raiders still go raid, if 8-9 Raiders drop out (let's say 3 tanks and 5 healers) it's wipe fest.
Luke Ramirez
And now I wanna go log in ffs Sup Forums
Carter Cox
now thats fucked up i only jerk while im not in a form you nasty nigger
Connor Lee
You might as well have the same argument except with Cuck E. Cheese and their game tickets that you can trade in for prizes.
You can even trade bind on pick up raid shit or the like, there is literally no economy so it proves nothing. It's just a shiny purple reward for your effort.
Alexander Collins
>This fantasy illusion proves Capitalism works because you work for things that gives you no real values IRL. >Life under capitalism is a fantasy which demands you for for nothing of real value. This.
This game is like serfdom under a fake meritocracy. Pay and work or you won't be part of the bliss, Goyim. Look how far you've gotten Goyim! Pay some more! Play some more! You will only get stronger Goyim, stronger!! If you work and pay hard, you will be allowed to enter the next expansion Goyim!
Playing expansions... I quit after tbc and am now on a vanilla server. Haven't logged in a while though as the weather is just too good to play wow.
William Garcia
You can trade BoP things to anyone else who was eligible to loot it now.
Adam Williams
>Which demands you to work for* Fuck.
Andrew Gray
>a massive time dump
William Nguyen
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Michael Bailey
Chinese gold farmers ruin everything
Inflating currency ruins everything
Nathan Wilson
privet servers
Adrian Hughes
Holy crap mate
Still playing? Heard Eve was kinda dying
Ayden Diaz
Well, but the main diffrence is, that no one force you to do so. Raiding with a guild means you agreed for it. Also, you are doing it just with your guildmates, not some random scrubs in crossroads/goldshire. There is nothing wrong with redistributing (well, it sounds bad, but i lack a better word) voluntarily and locally. Going with game example it would be uneconomically to let warrior take wand and mage a sword. Problems begins when someone force you to do so.
Benjamin Collins
Nah, this is just some review that I found, people that I know that did play it spent a incredible amount of time on it and I personally didn't want to make that time-investment,
