Who does the game economy really matter to?

I'm completely uninterested in pulling you into anything. I was justifying my word choice, not telling you what "we" are going to do. If you would operate more in the "loss" side of the concept, that's fine, I'm just not. For an illustration, nobody has to observe any measurable lowering of sea level for people to be allowed to say their boat is leaking.

Oh, so you're just being coy now. 'I'm uninterested' -- but you reply, albeit inadequately and flippantly and you won't quote me just in case I mistake your reply for a reply and then you end with a glib, unsatisfying metaphor. Way too many mixed messages for me. I'll do us both a favour. Swiping left now. *mental note: don't do that again.*

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Another answer to the OP: To whom does the game economy really matter? Whomever wants it to matter to them. From a fairly positive aspect, it was nice of GGG to provide players with the playground and then have the insight not to arbitrate it. No matter how much bullying there is, now much conflict and hair-pulling, they seem content to just let things play out. They might introduce a new toy or attraction now and then, but the basic behaviour remains consistent. I have called PoE an ant farm before, and I stick by that image, with possibly the main difference being ants don't pay the kid owning the ant farm to make the ant farm more interesting or compelling. That payment aside, I believe Exiles have about as much influence on the game as ants on their farm. If they all collectively decided to stop moving, that'd break the farm...but will they? Almost certainly not. It's not in their nature not to do what they do; ants can be trusted upon to act like ants. To be ants.

Maybe one day we'll get to see what happens when that changes, but I'd say it's more likely that the ants will start dying off, and the kid owning the ant farm will in turn start to lose interest in what was once their passion. Or worse, they'll come to see maintaining the ant farm as an obligation...well, we might already be close to that.

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Foreverhappychan wrote:

Oh, so you're just being coy now. 'I'm uninterested' -- but you reply, albeit inadequately and flippantly and you won't quote me just in case I mistake your reply for a reply and then you end with a glib, unsatisfying metaphor. Way too many mixed messages for me. I'll do us both a favour. Swiping left now. *mental note: don't do that again.*

Not coy, an entirely plainly spoken description of events. Not 'inadequate' (from my perspective at least), just not participating in a needless interrogation because it was irrelevant before it got out the gates thanks to being centred on an interpretation of the term that I was not using. Not some calculated refusal to quote you, just no need because your post was the direct preceding one in a continuing conversation.

You accuse people over "overthinking things" while you're imagining weird intellectual games happening in other people's heads focused on you. You complain of people being "determined to pull you in" (by, uh, explaining their word choice that you disagreed with) and then complain when they don't engage with irrelevant challenges you lay down. Maybe take a step back and consider that maybe it's actually not about you to anywhere near the degree you perceive.

So yes, I agree, don't do that again. Next time you feel like you have to apologise in advance for something you can see is "shitty", maybe make that apologetic thought mean anything at all by choosing not to do the shitty thing. Apologies mean "I recognise the problem with my actions and I will work to do better", which is nullified if you simultaneously demonstrate that you have no intention of doing that work.

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Foreverhappychan wrote:

Tencent Holdings Ltd.

Exactly right. Tencent is the answer to the 100 million dollar (at least, will be more if they decide to buy 100% of GGG stock... look out for P2W when that happens) question of who cares about the PoE economy. TBH I think that TencentGGG only wants the player numbers high to get them a top 10 Steam Charts rating. So 10s of thousands of trade bots is all good so GGG ignore the problems that causes with anyone wanting to play PoE for fun and do a little trading to improve their build. If PoE appears to be popular and nets them more eyeballs and beaucoup mtx sales then GGG will keep on feeding the PoE junkies and full speed ahead until the PoE train derails.

It matters to me.

Im a better than average but hardly extreme player who like to try new and interesting builds and attempt the end game.

A working economy lets me have access to particular items that im looking for.