Economy + Inflation - Complexity = ?

[Piliken]

I'm sure most people understand economics to some degree. Lets say in the US most people make 20-50k yearly income and the top 0.5% make multiple millions a year. Now the government has a bright idea and decides to make online jobs that allow anyone who can connect to the internet to make 50 thousand dollars every hour or 8 million in a 40 hour work week. Then they decide to arrest and jail 90% of the people for doing just that because they had second thoughts or made a mistake. The other 10% kept their money because they flipped items on amazon or craigslist instead of taking the online jobs. After all the people who were arrested get out of jail they come back to an economy that has left them in the dust where the price of a gallon of milk went from $4 to $30. No one lost their day job because most people were in the same boat so they all go back to work making their 20-50k a year. The underlying factor is now instead of 0.5% of the population being the multimillionaires now 10% of the population are. The economy has shifted to accommodate the now 20x as many rich people as before while leaving the other 90% of the population with less than 10% of the countries wealth behind. That 90% decides to migrate to a country with a better economy and the US does not have enough people to sustain itself.

This scenario is more complicated than DN's issue, but the problem is very similar between the two. It may be in the game's and the company's best interest to rethink the way the "fix" was handled.

[ForumVahn]

Yeah thats resumes pretty much the current scenario and as you said the 90% of population will decide to migrate to another country so a lot of players (and not just the casual ones) will be gone for good or at least until the economy gets fixed... meanwhile the players whose spend money on the game will be spending it on other games and who knows maybe they'll get attracted to new games and decide to never come back.
you can revert all this with just a, guess what, ROLLBACK

[LaNaYaPa]

Maybe they want, but they can't~LOL

[BountyKiller]

That isn't what took place at all.. First of all banning you from the game is not the same as arrest, even in principle. For your analogy to work the money would have to have been transferred to your bank account that exact same moment/that exact same day(which majority of jobs don't do). Then you have a pre-established precedent, being the payment for your labor already being set. If you suddenly start performing the same work and start seeing an unprecedented, unexplained, and unjustified amount of payment flowing into your account, you definitely should stop and find out why. Next, to make your analogy work it would be like the government blocking the knowingly exploitive population that was making this money from accessing the online job and wiping the excess cash from their accounts. You exploit, you deal with the consequences, shut up and get over yourselves.

[Piliken]

You seem to not understand the point of the post. I could care less about the ban for running BHT 3+ times. I could care less about the rollback that ED apparently can't do because they don't backup their game after releasing MAJOR patch updates. What does bug me is that the people who abused the market by buying items at normal value and selling them at over 1000% their normal price are free to keep their gold. It is clear not everyone understands what giving unprecedented amounts wealth to people who normally wouldn't have it does to a games economy. But i'll let you have your point of view because it furthers the discussion and understanding for others.

[BountyKiller]

If that was the actual point of your post then say that. Don't make crappy analogies trying to justify and shift blame. There is a lot of nuance to the situation at hand and the most likely reason a rollback wasn't done is due to hours of EC transactions that would cause a major fuss. Banning and removing in-game exploitation is likely the easier and safe option from a legal perspective. Either way, we don't have the necessary info to know full well why certain actions were or were not taken, so further discussing it is moot. You can complain about a marketplace "failure" but at the end of the day them listing things at high prices is not the issue, the issue is with the people exploiting the gold and then utilizing it. If you had nobody exploiting BHT for gold and actually using it to obtain items, those high listings not only wouldn't exist but if they somehow did, they would never sell. When a criminal who made money through illegal means is caught, you don't seek out every transaction they ever made and try to reverse it. What happened in the DN Market also happens in real markets as well, get over it.