EQBay Opens, Pre-Launch Testing Numbers Announced

[Soln]

at the end of the day no matter what people say, once this gets going, it's really going to hurt some young kid, somewhere.   Or people at school, or people who should just know better.  Adding the hope for profit to an already OCD treadmill is going to let some people imagine they can justify spending even more time online by farming for their student loan or mortgage payment.  I believe there's already lots of cautionary stories out there about quitting friends/school/jobs to "work on" eBay full time.  Same shit like being a day trader in your basement except the margins are smaller and the risk is less.  It's just gross.  

[HaemishM]

So essentially, it's Darwin at work, survival of the fittest and the winnowing out of the stupid?

I'm ok with that. 

I like it more when the original developers, no matter how much of an evil bunch of monkeyfuckers they are, get profit from player-to-player sales than I do some sweatshop-running, parasitic money-laundering scheme like IGE.

[Sky]

I bet IGE is an Al-Quaida front.

[shiznitz]

Leisure time is not money.  Leisure time costs money.  Time only = money if you otherwise would have spent that time earning money.

Now who here works a full shift, goes home, and then tries to decide whether to

1) play a game for two hours, or
2) run over to Wendy's for two hours, earning a grand total of $8.24 after taxes for picking fingers out of chili.

Then, of course, going home, going to bed, and working another day shift.

STFU about the value of your time spent looting orc corpses in Popular Franchise Online.
 

Exactly. If it isn't MMOG time, then it's is probably some other kind of leisure activity. People balance work for money vs leisure in a much more general sense. We decide how much leisure time we want and then decide how to spend that leisure time once we have it. It is an extremely rare case where the leisure time is completely pre-planned and unchanging.

[sarius]

I bet IGE is an Al-Quaida front.

Oh that it was... At least then someone would be accountable for something for once.  But, as things stand we have fucktards bragging about how slave wages turn 1,000% profits for them and governments again not giving a shit.  Hell, you can buy a kid in India now for $20.   What a fucking progressive race we all are.