Why do people do this?Follow

I beg to differ with you, but... what the hell, I really don't beg to differ with you. I'm not a beggar!

There is a real loss in WoW. Time and effort being lost if you don't make good. Sorry, but either you are just plain uneducated in economics or you have a weird (or no) idea on what constitutes "loss".

Edited, Mar 4th 2009 7:21am by ohmikeghod

Since in WoW, workers control the means of production and there is no money lent at interest, it is not a capitalist economy in the sense that Adam Smith or Karl Marx would recognize.

It’s a free market, let’s leave it at that.

One exception: levelling JC on WOTLK launch. Green gems were better than old epic ones. I made a KILLING while levelling. Market would soak up every amount of gems back then. But yeah 90% of the time levelling something means loosing money. Especially on most common items.

I guess that the reason "making stuff for points and profit" falls outside of your normal economic parameters (and the reason it skews the market) is that the gold you are spending on mats is NOT purchased for the purpose of making things for sale. It is spent on the acquisition of skill points instead. As long as people, including you, believe that they can spend their way into uber-dom profession-wise, the disparity between crafting and gathering will persist. That does not mean that it falls outside of capitalism. You already got what you paid for (skill points), and you are trying to sell the byproducts of that process.

Edited, Mar 6th 2009 7:18am by ohmikeghod

This thread has shown me that maxxed Enchanting is not as bad as I once took it for. At least if I'm trying to sell anything (enchanting-wise) there are no deposits so no lost money on something that's not bought out or repriced by myself.

That and farming mats for it is easy as when you have a group of epic geared players that dont need upgrades or a tailoring alt! =)

You had to resurrect a thread that's 2 months dead for that?