[MUD-Dev] RE: Value of PvP avatars (was: To Kill an Avatar)

[Boyle]

From: Marian Griffith [mailto:gryphon at iaehv.nl]

> Not really.  If the explanation is purely economic then the price
> difference is determined by supply and demand. For female avatars
> to be priced lower than comparable male avatars either the supply
> must be higher or the demand must be lower. As you just postulat-
> ed no (or hardly any) interaction between those two markets the
> relative sizes of them are irrelevant. This leaves open as one of
> the few purely economical explanations that female players must be
> leaving EQ en masse to create a significant difference in pri- ce
> between male and female avatars.  (Another one being that, for
> some odd reason, female players are willing to sell their charac-
> ter, but are not as willing to buy one) I wonder if we could talk
> the make of EQ into adding the option to switch gender of an
> avatar.  It would be interesting to see if such an option has any
> effect on the pricing of avatars.

Another potential explanation is that males prefer to buy male
characters, but have both male and female characters to sell. You
could look at the statistics on how many male/female avatars were up
at auction vs the proportion of male to female player.  That would
also cause this phenomenon.  And it's not an unlikely scenario that
many males might be willing to sell their 'experimental' female
character a disproportionate percentage of the time.
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