You ever think about how World of Warcraft repair fees and auction listing costs – set not because mods needed the gold but to counterbalance their distribution of new value and prevent inflation, with a side effect of encouraging authority-approved means of generating resources at the expense of ones deemed abusive and antisocial but otherwise viable – were taxes?

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Sometimes I chuckle about how directly, explicitly, not pathbreakingly at all Destiny is “what if the Halo guys made a Diablo”

I suppose when you get down to it WoW was “what if the Diablo guys made an EverQuest”