confuciousnz wrote:Wouldn't you rather know the REAL price of a bag of chips before you buy them, rather than let yourself be taken for a sucker?
Let's discuss this. You seem to imply that a bag of chips has a
REAL price. If this is the case, what is that price? I will make it easy for you, by narrowing it down to just one type of chips - Doritos. You seem to assume that Doritos should be priced the same, everywhere. Logically, this isn't the case as we all know. Geographically, you're more likely to pay a premium for Doritos in an urban area with a higher cost of living then a rural area with a lower cost of living. Besides that, store location (whether grocery or convenience) will effect the price of a bag of chips. Even in between chains of grocery stores, the price can vary. Then you have to factor in the internet, when trying to determine the 'real' price - do you count shipping in this real price? What about bulk discounts and instance when Doritos are used as part of a combination meal (otherwise known as a Combo)? And last of all, what about the 'price gouging' that occurs in vending machines? Or even worse, in areas where the selling of items is strictly controlled and licensed, such as at airport and baseball stadiums where a bag of chips and a coke could cost you $8? Are these prices invalid and criminal? How do they effect the
real price?
In truth, there is no
real price. The price of an item is derived by the price one person is willing to buy an item at and another is willing to sell that same item.
You can see that while you may have intended to just use the 'bag of chips' as an analogy, it hasn't quite worked out as you planned. That is because TMW is the same way. While everyone has the items in TMW, not everyone has them all the time and those that do have them aren't always selling them. I charge a premium over many other sellers, principally because I buy and resell and aim to have most non-rare items in stock. Thus, you could consider me a 'convenience store' of sorts, where the buyer pays for the cost of being able to get anything from me with a relative certainty.
Furthermore, anyone who has played TMW long enough to get 80k in gold should know better then to blow it all one one item. Think of it like this - if you were walking down the street and you had $80,000 in your pocket, you'd think that you would know better then to buy a bag of Doritos with all of it. Because you knew the value of a dollar because you'd had to work hard to earn it.
We already have a wiki that lists in detail how to solve almost every quest, the components required to craft every item, and other general play tips. Besides that, we have users in game, many of which are more then happy to give player free Chocolate Cupcake whenever they ask, or advice.
We don't need to hold people's hand in this game - there's enough of that already.
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