This dire disk space emergency was prompted by me trying to start up Guild Wars 1 in the morning and having it stall at the Connecting to ArenaNet server window.Īfter some Googling, it turns out my. …and instead spent it with a file folder/disk space management utility open in one screen and web browsing on the other monitor, struggling to tidy up my hard disks and pondering deep economic and emotional decisions about games to keep and games to get rid of. Most of which slooowly works towards my first legendary…) meander around the world harvesting resources to sell and hoard.use that same hour to run a dungeon instead which might produce cores/lodestones.spend an hour on invasions earning gold.I have just spent most of this Saturday forgoing the opportunity to rabidly play Guild Wars 2 (and thereby make further choices over what I actually do in-game: Opportunity cost is just as fascinating to me. For instance, do I spend all morning researching and writing a blog post, or exploring the town and country I am sojourning in, or play a video game?Īnd that has gotten my mind down a similar track. This is what fascinates me about it, why do we make the choices we do? It doesn’t have to be choice involving money. Though much of economic theory revolves around money, I had one college professor eloquently refer to it as the Study of Choice in the face of Scarcity. Rowan Blaze has been musing about economics in relation to MMOs in his last post:
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