Guild Wars 2

Necro post due to it’s relevancy as a high ranking google result

There is no way to put a wealth limit and any attempts only cause suffering for those without wealth e.g. instead of having gold the rich start hoarding good items which reduces supply and drives the price up and takes those items further out of reach of those trying to afford them. I love economics, considering starting a Ph.D in Economics/Econometrics next year.

The only way to get ‘rich’ I have seen in game economies is to ‘play’ the trading post equivalent type systems. To get rich one cannot trade time for currency. One simply does not have enough time. I have accumulated currency in games that would take a person numerous lifetimes to ‘grind’. You need to find a different trade-off such as the trading post allows you to significantly reduce the time required and make money while you aren’t even online. Then you make an average % of your as wealth repetitively with an obvious diminishing returns as the more wealth you have the lower that % gets.

In previous games I have seen an optimal 15% profit margin per flip of entire wealth dropping down to about 5% as you get quite wealthy and as you get super rich it can drop as low as 1%. But by then that 1% will be more than most people ever have in a single day.

Wealth is possible, wealth is generally fundamentally easy these days with the amount of information you can find on threads and and YouTube which didn’t exist when I made my wealth, only good old excel spreadsheets. The only reason why some get rich and others don’t is because people are lazy and want everything for nothing. I read and worked and calculated and recorded and never spent more than half of the net profit I made so my base wealth always grew. People would follow me and nag me for my wealth and I never gave anyone a single cent but I did give them something of much greater value. I offered to teach anyone how to make the riches just as I did. I even spoon fed them exact items and buy sell prices and all the tricks of said system. Then when they understood how it all worked I let them go and do it for themselves. When I messaged them a week later do you think any of them stuck to it? Nope.

Poor = Lazy
Rich = Committed

I only started Guild wars 2 not long ago getting an 80 warrior in 6 days and I got my guardian to level 32 on day 1 and I can’t wait to come and dominate your economy. Made 6g playing the trading post in the first couple hours. I actually found this thread googling how much the richest players have so I can set myself a goal to beat.

So if you’re poor, now you know why.