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I got a gas station near my crib and I hate them. It’s always crowded, the workers are jerks, their washroom stinks, and I’ve got up to 2,400 of their loyalty points. Somehow when I can’t let go of something, it inevitably deteriorates.

It gets better. Everytime I fill up my tank, I have a hunch that I won’t have enough gas to get to the next gas station.

Surely dimishing oil supply is very real, that’s genuine scarcity.

Precious magic rune is not, that’s artificial scarcity.

Matt always tell me there’s only one sword from that particular server. To my ear that sounds the same as Microsoft telling me there’s only one copy of Windows, hence that’s gonna cost me my leg.

Guess what, they are actually pretty close. By limiting the amount of licenses of Windows, the software turns about to be limited in amount.

And there plenty of things that are in limited amount in MMORPG, it’s all by design so I’d fight Matt and everybody else for it. Remember, that’s supposed to be fun. Well, it turn out the more hardworking guys can barely keep up with the cash-working ones.

Matt wanted to get his hand on a blaster, a pretty standard upscale model. He bust his ass for three straight nights, went to the store and found out he ain’t got enough money for the blaster. The price had gone up since he first checked.

It turns more people are credit-rich now. How? Matt has been hard working, and he ain’t anywhere near rich. Commercialization is florishing, more people are ‘born’ into the game rich. They rush to get more blasters, the stores raise prices so much they are planning for in-game IPO.

The working-hard (I mean hardworking) gamers blame the inflation on the farmers. They want farmers burnt to death. The slightly smarter working-harder blame it on the gold-buyers for splurging demand.

Again, that is how it sounds to me: “Oil prices goes up, we have Exxon-Mobil stop digging oil. If nobody can buy oil, we’d all spent our living days digging them ourselves, everybody is levelled and there won’t be inflation. So I’d like to thank the Academy for giving this award.”

Right.

Oil inflate coz more people are spending, and oil is truly running out. Blasters inflate coz more people are spending, but they ain’t really running out.

So who the hell cooked up this artificial scarcity and ruin it for the working-harder?

Game makers are way more powerful than the oil cartel. The cartel drill, the game makers click.