My husband and I had a conversation about this once. Why do we always end up rich with multiple houses in video games, when we're broke AF in real life? Why can't we transfer some of that into the real world. Then we realized the answer. Crime. We play criminals in video games. Skyrim? I'll have 300,000 gold and 6 houses by level 40. I'll also have robbed every single house, every NPC, and shop in every hold. Damned morals keeping me from doing that in the real world.

[–] Batman@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

You also don't pay for anything besides equipment. We'd all be rich pretty quickly in this scenario

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How much money would you have if your Skyrim character had to pay for health insurance and find a hospital after every skirmish?

[–] shadowSprite@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Idk, is there universal Healthcare in Tamriel? Lol but I guess I wouldn't have any money because I'd have died early on, so I'd still be better off without rent to pay :)

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Even without robbing people, video games are often heavily oriented around plundering abandoned dungeons. Not a lot of those in the real world. Heck, they don't even make sense in game. If there's dungeons full of gold, surely they'd be plundered to death by now? A couple of draegr aren't gonna keep people away from life changing wealth.

For games with no combat, the economy is usually just hyper exaggerated. Like Stardew Valley. You can spend an in-game month or two farming by hand with no automation and you'll make enough money to double the size of your house.