SW:TOR will experience the first ever overnight ecomonic crash of an MMO.

The worst thing that will happen is the flood of complaints onto the forums about how expensive Strongholds are from people who don't have any credits.

Oh wait, that already happened.

I think you are overestimating how many people will actually mess with GSH let alone burn all their credits on it.

Even if there was a collapse. Who cares? This is a game.

I apologize. I didn't read the wall of text. As someone who has studied economics, I didn't really feel the need to read something by someone who has obviously not.

Something I don't think you've realized is that a lot of this money being "sunk" from the game is earmarked for that sink. People have been saving. This is not money that would have been used for another purpose anyway. Other people have had this money for a long time and would not have spent it on anything else. Many others will probably be buying the strongholds with cartel coins.

In short, think of this money being spent as surplus money. It's money people have earned specifically for the stronghold or who wouldn't have used it for anything else anyway. Prices may dip a little but it won't last long. If anything, the introduction of a vast array of new items will probably increase economic activity. I'm even willing to go as far as to say that we're currently playing in a SWTOR with an artificially high level of credits because of people saving for the strongholds and this will correct itself with their introduction.

Remember that it isn't how much money is in supply that's important. It's how much is flowing. The 2008 Crisis didn't occur because money "disappeared". It occurred because the flow of credit shutdown almost overnight. The money was still there but it stopped moving. The introduction of strongholds will not do this.

Finally, this game's economy is nothing like real life.


This. This right here.