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Ragashigo's post is super important. (Destiny)

by Robot Chickens, Monday, October 23, 2017, 11:02 (2595 days ago) @ CruelLEGACEY

Nobody is claiming that Eververse is ruining their life, lol. It’s just designed in a way to earn more money than the items for sale would earn in a truly fair marketplace.

I agree with a lot of your feelings but I'm not sure this is true.

You are thinking of real money being valued at a rate of 1 item from the vault of goodness. Understandable, but what if you were to instead think of it as about 100 bright dust. Each item is worth a minimum of 95 bight dust (I believe) and many are worth considerably more. So, when you pay or play, you get about 100 for each transaction. It just happens to be that you *might* get something much more valuable. You may get the exact thing you want or you may get something worth more than 100 bright dust. But, you're never left with nothing (unlike a casino). Now you know the value of real money/ real time. Sometimes you get lucky, but there is always a path forward if you didn't. The obscured value of those engrams (100 bright dust) is probably the most problematic part, but I don't think it is unfair. I'm pretty sure most people have figured out whether the math is worth it on a gut level even if they haven't quantified it. Under this framing, the products are being fairly priced, but they're just higher than what I think you framed them as.


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