Quote Originally Posted by Physic View Post
xbox and ps3 is a two tiered sale item, you can use either without buying their software, it would be equivalent to selling bows cheap, if after that every single person had to buy your arrows, this type of model doesnt exist in this game.

Also, xbox and ps3 were expensive initially because they were a new business, the costs of production go down rapidly over time. the only analog in this market is making something when its 10 levels higher than you, but without being able to sell crafter exclusive arrows there is no incentive for that model.

You can bring up these things, but the fact is this the system is not even close to analgous to a real free market system, and even that needs a lot of oversight. Im not really that mad about it, you dont really need the market that much in this game. But its obvious that the end result of this games economy is going to be pretty screwy. The key to any business model is too make profit, in this game, that is not a lot of peoples goal, so it will never work.

To the above dude even the main proponent of the invisible hand said it needed the government to step in and stop collusion. In case you didnt study your history, go look up the industrial revolution, without unions, government controls like minimum wage, anti trust laws, FDA and various other outside forces, this system would have ended in bloody war.
Collusion doesn't work..... look at OPEC. Companies that collude have an incentive to cheat in order to outprofit the other companies, and they always will. And you clearly have no idea about what Adam Smith was talking about.
Gov't intervention is necessary. But this game is simple, there is no way to control a resource yet, there is no way to cause negative externalities. The invisible hand clearly works.

And this game DOES have a market economy that is functional

Seriously you're trying to argue that 2+2 = 5. You obviously don't understand how economies function and you're trying to make up BS arguments based on things you've probably heard about on fox news. If you don't know what you're talking about please don't try to pretend that you do. A number of people here have pointed out how wrong you are. These aren't like "theoretical" concepts. They are mathematical models based on proven science. Yes they aren't all perfect. But you aren't even getting near the imperfections of them in regards to this game.

And i'm sorry if i sound mean its just annoying to always read people arguing things about economics that is so utterly wrong. I understand you aren't familiar with it and have probably learned some skewed version of history. But PLEASE just go and actually learn the basics before you come on here and try to argue something that is so far from reality.