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In a video game, whatever allowed them to become billionaires would have been called an "exploit" and would have been nerfed in the next patch.
Our universe is abandon ware?
Lemmy discovers deism. ;)
TIL.
This is about as close as I've ever seen anything come to what I believe in. I usually tell people I'm an atheist because it's easier than trying to explain what I actually believe.
This is pretty much spot on. Thanks.
Worse, our society is
This is actually true. I'm a billionaire in No Man's Sky, I got there by core drilling an S-class hazardous planet (constant lightning storms, tornadoes, persistent ice/blizzard and anomalous gravity that sends you flying and damages structures), and I was digging out Activated Indium at a rate of around €9,000,000 credits/real hour, even when the game was turned off , or around €216 million credits per real life day.
The game developers took multiple visits to my planet -- saw that I wasn't cheating or exploiting in any way, didn't know what to do, so they simply nerfed the price that Activated Indium sold for on the open market. It went from 9000-12000 cr/unit to something like 33 -- a little less than the most abundant element in the universe, iron dust.
I had managed to sell approximately €1.4 billion worth of Indium before the nerf/economic changes, and that amount of money in NMS is ridiculous (A fully upgraded S-Class Freighter might be €500 million credits, think Super Star Destroyer along with accompanying navy). It has basically made everything completely free.
I cannot fathom real people, in real life, running around with multiple hundreds of billions of credits or dollars. It's not even "money" at that point, it's just real life cheats. You can buy entire nation states with it. It's ridiculous and gross and shouldn't be allowed.
Another great example of how insane that level of wealth is this project https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/
This was amazing. Thank you. Sent this to a friend who is a gazillionaire in FF14.
The game developers took multiple visits to my planet
Can you share more about this part? I never played NMS, so how does that work? How did you know they were visiting? What did they do when they were there? Kinda cool you were noticed for your efficiency!
In '00s games, sure.
In '20s games, it would be part of the Pay2Win scheme and only available to players who have rich parents.
