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Showing posts with label world of warcraft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label world of warcraft. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
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Thursday, January 05, 2006
The Economics of Warcraft
Now is a good time own shares of copper, tin and other common industrial metals. No, not in real life, silly... in World of Warcraft. Apparently the Ahn'Qiraj quest line has raised the demand for common wholesale materials, raising the prices on Auction Houses from Ironforge to Everlook.
You could ...
Whine about rising prices of raw materials for manufacturers:
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"The economy is totally upside down right now. 20 linen went for 15-20 silver now goes for 2-3 gold. Thorium bars are up almost 1g-2g a piece now. This goes for leather and other materials needed by the so-called 'war effort'. Craftsmen who buy and sell items off AH are just screwed until this war effort is over."
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Call for price controls:
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"1.) Without governmental controls (i.e., rationing and price caps) prices will clime dramatically on the war effort goods. If Blizzard is smart they'll come up with a voucher program and AH price caps for the war materials in next week's patch."
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Refute that argument by extolling free market values:
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"Blizzard isn't forcing anyone to pay or list those prices. Blizzard didn't create this - the players did by paying. It's that simple. Simple supply and demand. I can't believe how many people can't grasp this concept."
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"The general rule of thumb is when the costs of your goods outweigh the cost of the product produced, you don't produce said product."
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Sell goods for ridiculous amounts:
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"People need to think of the economy as now being on a wartime footing. The price of certain items will go up as there is a new need for them. I think it shows how dynamic a MMORPG economy can be. And once this event is over, prices will settle down again. But for now, this is an opportunity for war profiteers who manage the temporary changes to the economy well to make a lot of money."
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Moralize about the military-industrial complex:
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"You're encouraging war profiteering? Whoever said ethics were dead in Azeroth was right."
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Decry the triumph of capitalistic self-interest over common unity:
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"The whole server COULD have banded together and said... "Let's open AQ first!!! DROP ALL PRICES TO NOTHING!" I'm sorry to say however, in a capitalist run world in which nearly all of us exist in...we're programmed to respond differently."*
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Worry about post-war recessions:
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"However, Blizz did affect the supply in the fact that thousands of people had god knows how many stacks of runecloth saved up ... Now that these stockpiles are gone, it will be interesting to see the price of runecloth after the event is over."
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Just not give a damn:
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"'Casual gamers' don't launch tirades about the awful burdens Blizzard puts on their video game commodities market. They don't complain bitterly about the going rate of bear skins in video game land."
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-Fin!
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*(I don't see that the prices are deterring people from donating to the war effort, since the demand is mostly price inelastic. Say the quest requires 90,000 bars of copper to be donated to the war drive to trigger the world event- if the price is low, a lot of newbie players will purchase the 90,000 bars, whereas if the price is driven up, a small elite guild of level 60 ubergamers purchases the 90,000 bars. Equity and distribution are irrelevant in this case. Overall quantity demanded is more or less the same.)
Now is a good time own shares of copper, tin and other common industrial metals. No, not in real life, silly... in World of Warcraft. Apparently the Ahn'Qiraj quest line has raised the demand for common wholesale materials, raising the prices on Auction Houses from Ironforge to Everlook.
You could ...
Whine about rising prices of raw materials for manufacturers:
---
"The economy is totally upside down right now. 20 linen went for 15-20 silver now goes for 2-3 gold. Thorium bars are up almost 1g-2g a piece now. This goes for leather and other materials needed by the so-called 'war effort'. Craftsmen who buy and sell items off AH are just screwed until this war effort is over."
---
Call for price controls:
---
"1.) Without governmental controls (i.e., rationing and price caps) prices will clime dramatically on the war effort goods. If Blizzard is smart they'll come up with a voucher program and AH price caps for the war materials in next week's patch."
---
Refute that argument by extolling free market values:
---
"Blizzard isn't forcing anyone to pay or list those prices. Blizzard didn't create this - the players did by paying. It's that simple. Simple supply and demand. I can't believe how many people can't grasp this concept."
---
"The general rule of thumb is when the costs of your goods outweigh the cost of the product produced, you don't produce said product."
---
Sell goods for ridiculous amounts:
---
"People need to think of the economy as now being on a wartime footing. The price of certain items will go up as there is a new need for them. I think it shows how dynamic a MMORPG economy can be. And once this event is over, prices will settle down again. But for now, this is an opportunity for war profiteers who manage the temporary changes to the economy well to make a lot of money."
---
Moralize about the military-industrial complex:
---
"You're encouraging war profiteering? Whoever said ethics were dead in Azeroth was right."
---
Decry the triumph of capitalistic self-interest over common unity:
---
"The whole server COULD have banded together and said... "Let's open AQ first!!! DROP ALL PRICES TO NOTHING!" I'm sorry to say however, in a capitalist run world in which nearly all of us exist in...we're programmed to respond differently."*
---
Worry about post-war recessions:
---
"However, Blizz did affect the supply in the fact that thousands of people had god knows how many stacks of runecloth saved up ... Now that these stockpiles are gone, it will be interesting to see the price of runecloth after the event is over."
---
Just not give a damn:
---
"'Casual gamers' don't launch tirades about the awful burdens Blizzard puts on their video game commodities market. They don't complain bitterly about the going rate of bear skins in video game land."
---
-Fin!
----
*(I don't see that the prices are deterring people from donating to the war effort, since the demand is mostly price inelastic. Say the quest requires 90,000 bars of copper to be donated to the war drive to trigger the world event- if the price is low, a lot of newbie players will purchase the 90,000 bars, whereas if the price is driven up, a small elite guild of level 60 ubergamers purchases the 90,000 bars. Equity and distribution are irrelevant in this case. Overall quantity demanded is more or less the same.)
Monday, August 22, 2005
Otakon was frickin' awesome. I had a lot more fun this year than last.
Yay, Jeremy! It's a lot better with him there. Also, I think he's finally mastered the art of driving into downtown Baltimore. Also, I was better at finding my way around and scheduling things this year.
Bumped into Lauren there too. That was frickin' awesome. Small, small world.
I had a costume of sorts, on Sunday, if wearing a giant yellow foam World of Warcraft exclamation mark on my head can be considered a costume. Damn the torsion power! It kept falling over, or keeling over in the wind. Plus, I had to take it off to go through doors and low ceilings.
A bunch of people took my picture (most of 'em thinkin' I was from Metal Gear Solid) - I hope none of them get online or you'll have pictures of me in a bike helmet with a styrofoam sphere and a high-density foam block attached to it. I ran into two other people who had forms of punctuation attached to their heads too.. that was amusing. Plus I bumped into a bunch of guildies from my server. The number of WOW junkies at Otakon was just incredible.
(The number of people who went as Full Metal Alchemist characters... less so.)
Jeremy went as Larva from Vampire Princess Miyu and ended up being glomped by an uncomfortable number of girls.
I can also say with perfect confidence that while he was dressed as Larva, (and when we went down to the Inner Harbor), he freaked out/awed a bunch of little kids ("Are you a magician?"), and homeless people did not ask him for money.
Yay, Jeremy! It's a lot better with him there. Also, I think he's finally mastered the art of driving into downtown Baltimore. Also, I was better at finding my way around and scheduling things this year.
Bumped into Lauren there too. That was frickin' awesome. Small, small world.
I had a costume of sorts, on Sunday, if wearing a giant yellow foam World of Warcraft exclamation mark on my head can be considered a costume. Damn the torsion power! It kept falling over, or keeling over in the wind. Plus, I had to take it off to go through doors and low ceilings.
A bunch of people took my picture (most of 'em thinkin' I was from Metal Gear Solid) - I hope none of them get online or you'll have pictures of me in a bike helmet with a styrofoam sphere and a high-density foam block attached to it. I ran into two other people who had forms of punctuation attached to their heads too.. that was amusing. Plus I bumped into a bunch of guildies from my server. The number of WOW junkies at Otakon was just incredible.
(The number of people who went as Full Metal Alchemist characters... less so.)
Jeremy went as Larva from Vampire Princess Miyu and ended up being glomped by an uncomfortable number of girls.
I can also say with perfect confidence that while he was dressed as Larva, (and when we went down to the Inner Harbor), he freaked out/awed a bunch of little kids ("Are you a magician?"), and homeless people did not ask him for money.
Wednesday, August 03, 2005
I Hart Darth, the cutest Star Wars webcomic out there.
I found the link via Manic Graffiti, the cutest World of Warcraft webcomic out there.
I found the link via Manic Graffiti, the cutest World of Warcraft webcomic out there.
Monday, August 01, 2005
So True
I was chatting on World of Warcraft. A gnome asked me what I did, and I told him I was an econ major.
To which he replied: "So what else do you do, besides gaming and counting money?"
Well...
actually, that's pretty much it.
I was chatting on World of Warcraft. A gnome asked me what I did, and I told him I was an econ major.
To which he replied: "So what else do you do, besides gaming and counting money?"
Well...
actually, that's pretty much it.
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SMITE!!
I'm proud to announce that I am no longer a PvP virgin.
This Saturday, me and Jeremy ran a level 27 orc hunter all the way down Stonetalon Peak.
He got away. (Paladin and warrior vs. Aspect of the Cheetah... catching runners = no. We did ensure, however, that all he could do is run... like the little Horde girlie-man that he is. :P)
(But Angie! You outnumbered him two to one! And a level 50 mage joined up with you to frost-shock him!)
HUSH! GREAT VICTORY FOR THE ALLIANCE!
Warsong Gulch, here I come!
I'm proud to announce that I am no longer a PvP virgin.
This Saturday, me and Jeremy ran a level 27 orc hunter all the way down Stonetalon Peak.
He got away. (Paladin and warrior vs. Aspect of the Cheetah... catching runners = no. We did ensure, however, that all he could do is run... like the little Horde girlie-man that he is. :P)
(But Angie! You outnumbered him two to one! And a level 50 mage joined up with you to frost-shock him!)
HUSH! GREAT VICTORY FOR THE ALLIANCE!
Warsong Gulch, here I come!
Wednesday, July 20, 2005
Game on the Brain
Did you hear? Some paladin won the roll on Baron Rivendare's Epic Mount. It's one of the rarest drops in the game. In Character, I wonder how this obscenely lucky lawful-good Holy Knight of the Light, champion of chivalry and justice, is going to justify that pimped-out undead steed named Deathcharger.
I have a really hot wallpaper of Arthas Menethil (not Arthas Terenas*, you fools!) on my desktop. This is one of him back when he's human, not the Death Knight one which proliferates the internet, because frankly I don't want that psychotic smile gleefully Cheshire-catting me every time I start up Windows.
I wonder whose face the artist used for reference?
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Some guy made a replica of Frostmourne. You know you're pretty sad when you have less of a life than Arthas.
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Excerpt from a hilarious editorial honoring Arthas with the Dumbass of the Month Award:
The rest of it is even more entertaining.
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*Really now. I don't understand why this misnomer persists. Nobody goes around addressing real monarchs by last name, so why start the habit with fictional, computer game ones? You'd feel pretty dumb referring to Queen Elizabeth (I) as "Queen Tudor."
Did you hear? Some paladin won the roll on Baron Rivendare's Epic Mount. It's one of the rarest drops in the game. In Character, I wonder how this obscenely lucky lawful-good Holy Knight of the Light, champion of chivalry and justice, is going to justify that pimped-out undead steed named Deathcharger.
- "He was.. uh.. on sale."
- "He's gentle! Really!"
- "Those obsidian horns are for decoration!"
I have a really hot wallpaper of Arthas Menethil (not Arthas Terenas*, you fools!) on my desktop. This is one of him back when he's human, not the Death Knight one which proliferates the internet, because frankly I don't want that psychotic smile gleefully Cheshire-catting me every time I start up Windows.
I wonder whose face the artist used for reference?
--
Some guy made a replica of Frostmourne. You know you're pretty sad when you have less of a life than Arthas.
--
Excerpt from a hilarious editorial honoring Arthas with the Dumbass of the Month Award:
"Quote: "It's time to fight fire with kerosene!"
Key Appearances: Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, because once he's doing the whole Undead bit he's no longer qualifiable.
Qualifications: Poor ability to think out consequences of actions, ignorance of obvious progression, lousy hair, looking half-drunk, not having played Starcraft far enough to pick up on this particular plot twist
Redeeming Point: Really, I have no beef with undead Arthas whatsoever.
Damning Point: This is essentially saying that he's smarter dead than alive.
Inaccurate Statement: "Arthas just didn't know where his path was leading."
Correction: Hmph. Sure. That shit didn't fly with Kerrigan, either."
The rest of it is even more entertaining.
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*Really now. I don't understand why this misnomer persists. Nobody goes around addressing real monarchs by last name, so why start the habit with fictional, computer game ones? You'd feel pretty dumb referring to Queen Elizabeth (I) as "Queen Tudor."
Excessive Profanities
Some fucker on the World of Warcraft forums spoiled Half-Blooded Prince for me.
What's ironic about this is that he had the spoiler in his sig, which I missed completely because I don't read forum sigs anyway. However, some well-intentioned fuckers further down the thread were saying things like, "Hey, you should change your sig," and "You shouldn't post sigs like that here," which, of course, made me curious. So I scrolled back up to read it, like a dumbass fucker.
You fuckers!
Some fucker on the World of Warcraft forums spoiled Half-Blooded Prince for me.
What's ironic about this is that he had the spoiler in his sig, which I missed completely because I don't read forum sigs anyway. However, some well-intentioned fuckers further down the thread were saying things like, "Hey, you should change your sig," and "You shouldn't post sigs like that here," which, of course, made me curious. So I scrolled back up to read it, like a dumbass fucker.
You fuckers!
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