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Originally Posted by LeeD
102 Santana has better stuff than little Johnny, and Johnny can be happy that dad's team has pushed Variant Stieb into the bullpen after he started 4-9 with a mid-5 ERA. Snark aside, yes, it's just a game. It's not like hiking gas prices or interest rates or swindling people out of real money.
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lol agreed. Everyone wants to tout the "free market" of the PT economy. It's not a free market in the same way as the retail market is. It's a bunch of people playing a game, where it doesn't really matter if they make 50k PP over L10 or -5K PP over L10. PP aren't used for anything else - PP doen't buy groceries or gas, PP doesn't buy medicine, PP doesn't buy transportation, PP doesn't buy a house or your kids' college. It's a game where people don't have to care that they are not selling a card worth 500K PP now when it's just a card they pulled from a random pack not truly something they earned.
The point is that this isn't a true economy here. It's a game. One can try to apply economic theories to it, but the reality is that's not going to change whether players X, Y, or Z are going to sell their Scruff McGruff card for 60652 PP over L10 because it's the only card available. There's no inherent need or long-term gain to sell anything here, like in the real retail market.