2008-11-18, 01:26 PM
alwzn4vr Wrote:How is applying 7B worth of scrolls to an item that you can never sell or trade not a form of mesos sink. The value of that item is no longer recognized in the economy as a whole. I.e. it's been removed from the economy.
@Kaj
Yes I understand that paying for the scrolls give someone else mesos. If the item was tradeable, the the seller would have 7B and the buyer would have a 7B item. That's still 14 B floating around the economy. The item isn't tradeable so there's only 7B floating. Therefore 7B is still removed.
On the other hand, consider what would have happened if Nexon hadn't given this person a lunchbox.
He would set out to create himself a perfect weapon. Let's assume he would spend the same 7B on clean swords and sword scrolls, and blow them up one after the other until he's got the godliest sword he could make. And he's use it himself, not sell it.
Net result: a large number of clean swords "removed from the economy", and all the scrolls used on them, and finally the godly sword which is also not "floating around" because the owner has no reason to sell it.
So is the lunchbox, saving all those swords and scrolls from untimely death, really a gold sink?