Doctor Archive

He's a F'ing idiot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Styran wrote:

Look, he was losing money on the deal. From what I have heard from guidies, he has been doing this for a couple of weeks now. Someone asked him why, and He said that he was trying to stop the Buufs from being overpriced.

So he is underpricing them and shortchanging himself? I agree with playing your own style, but when it starts to grief someoneor cause them to lose money and/or time, that is when it gets annoying.

I am not the ricjest in the galaxy. I am a farily poor player, living from day to day. I offer free buffs to people, and help out noobs anyway I can. I am very generous

But I make the trip to Dant. to find this? How am I supposed to get customers compared to that?

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HE IS NOT GRIEFING YOU SO QUIT SAYING IT. IT IS HIS TIME, HIS PRODUCT AND HIS DECISION ON WHAT TO PRICE IT. IT IS A FREE ECONOMY YOU ARE NOT ENTITLED TO MAKE MONEY.

IF YOU START A COMPUTER BUSINESS DO YOU EXPECT TO OFFER LOWER PRICES THAN DELL?

NO.

NOW, GO SOMEWHERE THAT PERSON ISN'T AND BUFF THERE AND QUIT CRYING.

ALSO, DO NOT THROW GRIEF AROUND SO LIGHTLY, ALL HE IS DOING IS PLAYING HIS GAME.

YOU SOUND LIKE A CRYBABY AND ITS GETTING OLD.

Boo hoo, I can't charge 50k for buffs because another doctor is charging 1 credit.

Get over it.

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DarthXanthic wrote:

ALSO, DO NOT THROW GRIEF AROUND SO LIGHTLY, ALL HE IS DOING IS PLAYING HIS GAME.

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Songe wrote:

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DarthXanthic wrote:

ALSO, DO NOT THROW GRIEF AROUND SO LIGHTLY, ALL HE IS DOING IS PLAYING HIS GAME.

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Well griefers act the same way really, they play the game as they like it without caring about how their action can influence other people's fun.

/shrug

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Marketing and selling your product for the price your deem reasonable is NOT GRIEFING.

You can enjoy the damn game w/o selling your buffs, jesus.

Unfortunately, buffs is the first source of income for docs. And don't worry I react the same way when someone starts selling clothes or weapons for half the price of 90% of the other crafters of the server. It can totally ruin their business too. If you overprice, who cares, people don't have to buy your stuff, but if you totally undercutthe other craftersit will affect other people's business, as well as devaluate the profession to the point when the profit won't be worth the effort anymore when you can get 100k in 10 minutes running missions.

I agree that the word 'griefer' is a bit strong, however most of the people who undercut do it on purpose and in this case most of the time it can be considered as griefing towards the other crafters of the same profession.

I work at Best Buy.

During christmas we sell quite a few items below our cost to get people in the store.

We are taking a loss in order to do more business from those customers in the future.

I suppose we are griefing CompUSA?

What about any new business in teh US?

Most fail, why? Because it isn't easy to compete against a business who is already founded (a la Wal-Mart) who get their more product cheaper than a new business can acquire, thus Wal-Mart can sell at a much lower price will still being successful.

Funny, I thought this game was supposed to be a player driven economy, not a player whining one.

You logic about overcharging/undercharging is invalid also, as under your logic, both would be considered griefing, since they lead to a "less than enjoyable" experience to new/poor players.

The caps came at my frustation of the use of the word grief over and over.

Who are you to question his costs?

You sell for 10k, did he mssg you and ask why?

You are no person to tell him the value of his product and service, he is.

Worry about your own.

Songe, I think your first mistake is that anyone is at all obligated to make you feel good, whether it be your profession, your ingame financial situation, your life in general. No one has any reason to make your existence any easier other than yourself. That someone by chance actually does so is just kindness and should induce your gratuity. If you want to improve your situation, recognize that it will be you to do it, not the behavior of anyone else. You don't like how so-and-so handles his business, too bad unless you do something about it. Why whine about the situation? Does it make you feel any better? Remember that you will always find jerks in this life and that complaining is more likely to get your razzed than it will to induce better behavior.
That being said, I do sympathize for the ingame economics of being a doctor in this game. It was my chosen profession and I've kept it since I've started playing this game, but I don't make my cash selling buffs. I find it too stressful dealing with the unruly kiddies who have nothing better to do when waiting for their buffs than to talk trash about how my buffs are bad, how long it's taking to get them done, blah blah blah, let someone else deal with that.
Finally, no one ever said you have to stay being a doctor, you can quit it anytime, so if it's being too much of a burden for you to keep on being a doctor, give it up, only you choose to keep your profession.

Well I'm really sorry for being blunt but the people who are so nice giving out buffs are everything but nice to their fellow docs. They don't need the money, but it doesn't mean that other docs are as rich at them. You don't need to sell buffs to make money? Wonderful! Then don't. At all. Leave a market for the other docs who DO need the money.

/rant off

Message Edited by Songe on 04-29-2004 03:19 PM