Guild Wars 2

SynfulChaot.3169:

Blood Red Arachnid.2493:

SynfulChaot.3169:

We are limited in profit we can make from all other sources in the game. Why should the TP be immune from the limitations ANet has been quite free with applying to all other money-making methods?

I’ll say it again: farming produces money from nothing, which causes inflation. Capital Gains (flipping) merely exchanges money and loses some in the trading process, which fights against inflation.

And I’ll say it again. Flipping is leeching off of the system and is IMHO unethical. ‘Farmers’, aka players who are playing the kittening game, get punished and restricted while those that play the TP and siphon money away from said players get rewarded and are unrestricted.

Maybe I’m missing something (and I’ve only taken one semester of intro to economics so please don’t hate too much (-: ) but it seems to me that their is a gap between the buyers and the sellers, and the only thing the flippers are doing is narrowing this gap and of course making money in the process.

Is this not actually increasing total satisfaction?

Sellers are getting more money for their goods then they would if they had sold to the previous buyers bid and the “buy now” buyers are getting a lower price than they would have had they bought from the previous “buy now” sellers.

As for the negative effect flippers have on inflation, with money essentially being printed every time someone kills a mob or completes a quest, isn’t this a good thing?

I don’t know maybe I’m looking at it too simplistically.