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Originally Posted by
Ploppytheman 
Any amount of duping hurts the economy, just like any amount of the quantitative easing depreciates the value of the dollar. The attitude that I only dupe for myself or my friends is shared by many people so all those people combined hurt the economy because you destroy YOUR demand for goods.
A good rule is, if everyone did this, would it be good.
I'm not talking about what's good or bad for the Diablo 3 economy, I'm talking about what Blizzard could conceivably expect to make from fees on a given item.
A single item may demand a high price, but out of thousands of potential buyers, that price will not be significantly higher than two, three, or likely even six of them. Also, one item will change hands far less often than six would, presenting less opportunity for fees.
People are speaking as if a single item type has a total value that is evenly divisible by the number of that kind of item; this is ridiculous.
Edited by Blameless - 8/20/12 at 2:54am
