inb4 Korny's "Warframe does that" (Destiny)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Tuesday, November 08, 2016, 02:59 (3029 days ago) @ ZackDark

Though I guess it also has limitless currencies on top of banking time, but honestly, time is the "harshest" price on most items.

Anyway, addressing the main point of "why there are limitless supplies": continuous content. The content itself keeps growing in a non-predictable manner. Limited resources would have to eventually be expanded anyway to accommodate for such an increase in content. It's simpler and smoother to have limitless supplies that a player can bank up on.

Of course, the argument is weakened by the introduction of even more currencies, but it's still somewhat sound, IMO.

Could the supply of currency not increase by a finite amount proportional to the amount of new content added? If you can get say, 10 currency per level, and an expansion adds five more levels, then you can earn 50 more. Which means you now have to actually make decisions about how to spend that on all the new items.