Quote Originally Posted by Peptaru View Post
And the 20 people who spam a product for skillup and sell for way way less than its true value just to dump their invo instead of npc'n it without messing anything up.... ya.... find me a business that does that IRL plz. Again refer to my previous statement. There are many people who've studied and written on these topics, but RL =/= mmo economy.
Of course real life and a virtual economy are not the same, but there are a ton of parallels and they behave in a very similar way. There is no real life analogue to skilling up and dumping of finished products, but that does not invalidate the rest of the free market tenets that happen in a virtual world. The many people who have written and studied on these topics all agree that virtual free market economics are more similar to real life free markets than they are different, and they have idenitcal phenomena, patterns, and behaviors.