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Re:Eve Online fans cheer Microsoft Excel features at annual ... by lupire on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @09:13AM (#31326696)
> I played for five years but I quit after I calculated I was grinding for $1.72/hr.

It's weird how that made you feel worse than grinding for $0

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Re:Eve Online fans cheer Microsoft Excel features at annual ... by mekkkkkk on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @09:37AM (#31326961)
It's not that weird. Before PLEX, it wasn't "grinding for $0", but it was "grinding to get the Ishtar heavy assault cruiser". Making the monetary value visible the way that MTX does sort of kills the allure.
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Re:Eve Online fans cheer Microsoft Excel features at annual ... by mwigdahl on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @09:46AM (#31327055)
It's a well-known effect, first documented by the _Freakonomics_ guys: https://freakonomics.com/2013/10/what-makes-people-do-what-t...
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