Talk:Prime Vault/@comment-86.159.224.105-20161025094631/@comment-358432-20161028053027

naieve? they can create new content without unvaulting anything. nothing stopping them either way, vault or no. The question is 'why vault' in the first place? Because there is this believe that older players, people who have been playing for a long time, deserve something for their efforts, something that new players do not deserve. But, as a concession to your point of view, they unvault now (supposedly) for a month on one set, i guess. I'll wait and see how that works out. If players are interested then they can wait for the unvaulting and farm away. If they aren't really interested, they can 'take a break from the game' and miss out. Player choice. Sounds pretty damn fair and 'incentivising' to me. What if they just got rid of the vault and let everything float out there? Well, really it is about spending money on prime access. And prime access is a temporary timed happening that eventually goes away. It is like a semi-limited edition release of an item. If you participate in the given time allocated, then you get the item. If you do not... then what are you talking about? you missed it. crycrycry

But one thing I do need to say is that the idea that it is 'cool' to farm prime items for plat as if that is a 'job' is just ridiculous. Sure, there are boobs out there that will drop a dime in a heartbeat for whatever xyz mod or item. Sure you can be one of those to capitalize on the excess of the ones who do have the cash to drop. But it is nothing to really be proud of? And the 'marketplace' is so archaic and immature. It does force one to become a little savvy about buying and selling and pushing your wares and so on. So, from a sort of cultural enlightenment perspective it has merit. It is sort of like how you learn about economics chasing illegal drugs. Prime parts aren't illegal, but it is somewhat questionable to encourage a sort of black market, somewhat similar to how gambling can be a problem and is thought of as immoral. It certainly is more economical to actually work a real job and buy plat than be a plat 'farmer'. But, putting up one's extra parts for sale is a sort of nice extra benefit you can get from playing the game as you accrue extra junk you don't need in search of that one item you do need.

So, the real culprit in this scenario that is causing all the anxiety is 'RNG'.

As The Resident says, "Let's talk about THAT tonight."