Originally Posted by
bobo
Your comparison is very inaccurate. In a real life lottery, you have to pay to enter, so if you don't win, you have something to lose. In this drawing, all you have to do is log on for 5 minutes, slap lethal a few times, and you're entered. In a real life lottery, someone doesn't win every time. There are drawings where there is no winner at all. In this drawing, it is guarenteed that one person will win every two hours. In a real life lottery, the money comes from someone else's expense. Part of the losers' expenses are put in to create the prize. In this drawing, all of the items are generated by the server.
A more accurate comparison would be a package of a billion dollars falling from the sky targeting a random residential area, and a person happens to catch it. Sure, there's no control over who catches it, it could be a multimillionaire or a homeless person. The money was generated out of nothing, much similar to the event items now. There is no cost to whoever catches it or doesn't, whoever is walking outside at the time has a chance. The package also lands in a residential area, so someone will receive its contents. Well, sure someone just got very rich out of pure luck, but it has effects on everyone else as well. Now everyone else with some money will suffer the massive inflation due to the additional billion dollars tossed into the economy. Everyone who has worked for anything just lost hours of work, and all the money just decreased in value. The current event items are now decreasing in value, as people are winning them without work nor cost. One person benefits, while everyone else involved in the economy suffers. Even if a person decides to live on subsistence and refuses to participate in the economy, it is still ignorant to say nothing bad is happening. If you aren't participating in events and don't even own an item, approaching this situation with the same ignorance does not justify its effects. With all the chaos from these falling packages of money, imagine if it happens 12 times a day for 2 (or more) days. The packages may not always have a billion dollars in them, maybe a million, or a thousand. Either way, the value of money will still decline. Yes, the value of all the event items are declining just because of this drawing, and it doesn't help that the more expensive ones are being thrown out more often than the less expensive ones.