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

Geez another doom and gloom Swtor thread...
Well actually both Lotro and Rift...probably others have indeed released player/guild housing after release. And they have all managed to survive.

In lotro for example the gold/price ratio for personal and kinship housing is very comparable to Swtor. So if you look at the history of mmos and releasing housing there is no reason to write a long winded, irrational , doom and gloom thread.

The flaw in your logic is assuming this will last forever. In a real life depression people lose the capacity to make money, and end up poor. In this game, since credits are made out of thin air anytime you complete a quest and receive a reward, no one ever loses the capacity to make money, the only question is how much they have in reserve.

The economy will dip as many of those players sitting on massive stacks of wealth for no good reason spend their reserves. After a short while, the economy will rise as the supply of credits rises back up a bit and stabilizes. After that, the economy will stabilize at a new level, and everything will go back to normal, albeit possibly with new "normal" prices.

Meh.

Let's be honest: all it will do is make people a little less inclined to purchase off the GTN for a few days. Meanwhile, players will still be running dailies and guilds will still be running Ops. The result will be money going right back into the economy, with some nice big new money sinks hanging around to help stave off inflation (which is the real culprit every MMO should be concerned about).

To add on... you can't apply real world economics to an MMO. Very, very little of an MMO economy is even remotely like the real world. For starters, you can't just magic more money into the economy by going and killing ten womp rats or out of the economy be purchasing something from a NPC vendor. There's no debt, there's no loans, prices are often completely arbitrary, and even supply and demand doesn't work like real life. MMO economies function on a level completely different from the real world on a fundamental level. It's like trying to apply the strategy for a soccer game to baseball. Yeah, they're both sports, but they're very, very different sports.

Yes, people buying sizable chunks of GSH stuff and guildships will see a sizable chunk of credits get funneled out of the economy. But as people who have already saved up for that stuff have shown, it takes almost no time at all to funnel those credits back into the economy. I think we're look at, at most, two or three days where a few prices drop slightly on the GTN or just a slightly smaller amount of stuff gets sold on it. Hardly doom and gloom.

Nah...I think it'll make players feel less attached to this game.

SWTORs economy has been weird and stupid since launch.

I doubt I will even notice the "crash" as anything out of the ordinary.

Im sure someone has already mentioned this, but Im too lazy to look for it through 50 posts of armchair economics. (not to mention that absurdly long op of bs)

Basic point: you cant apply real world economic thought to a game. Its because the game has virtually no cost of living. There is no demand that is really a need. There is only a functionally infinite supply and "want."

Thus the whole "OH MY GOD, there will be breadlines on the starter planets! So sad!" falls apart.

Would you mind clarifying your logic, please?

If the super-expensive things on the GTN go down in price, because if a significant deflation, than players would feel less attached to the game?

Why? Players with less money would be able to afford things they've desired that were out of reach before.

I'm just going to purchase my Stronghold stuff with CC. -shrug-

I guess I can kind of see some of the concern for regular GTN players.

For myself, I likely won't notice anything at all.