Game decisions are limited, the strategy is clear. Generally, things within a game don't suddenly change in a way that totally rearranges the entire economy.
Out in the real world, we face changing rules, different definitions of success, and most people trying to give advice don't know what the people they're talking to are facing.
In D&D 5e, you can get infinite money while living a life of luxury from an Uncommon item, Alchemy Jug, by making vials of acid.
Even just a few hundred gold in D&D 5e is probably hundreds of thousands of dollars. Your average D&D party are multi-millionaires.
Don't even need to go that far if you're a wizard or cleric. It's not totally infinite but selling your spell slots for the day is a thing in almost every world I've played in, and those fuckers are expensive! 10gp per spell per spell level seems to be the going rate.
You don't have to guess the value of gold pieces. It stated clearly in 2nd and 3rd edition that coins of any type are 1/10 of an oz of the substance.
so 1 gp = $192
Never had a cracked head gasket in Faerun.
Never played a gnomish tinkerer?
My husband and I had a conversation about this once. Why do we always end up rich with multiple houses in video games, when we're broke AF in real life? Why can't we transfer some of that into the real world. Then we realized the answer. Crime. We play criminals in video games. Skyrim? I'll have 300,000 gold and 6 houses by level 40. I'll also have robbed every single house, every NPC, and shop in every hold. Damned morals keeping me from doing that in the real world.
You also don't pay for anything besides equipment. We'd all be rich pretty quickly in this scenario
How much money would you have if your Skyrim character had to pay for health insurance and find a hospital after every skirmish?
Idk, is there universal Healthcare in Tamriel? Lol but I guess I wouldn't have any money because I'd have died early on, so I'd still be better off without rent to pay :)
Even without robbing people, video games are often heavily oriented around plundering abandoned dungeons. Not a lot of those in the real world. Heck, they don't even make sense in game. If there's dungeons full of gold, surely they'd be plundered to death by now? A couple of draegr aren't gonna keep people away from life changing wealth.
For games with no combat, the economy is usually just hyper exaggerated. Like Stardew Valley. You can spend an in-game month or two farming by hand with no automation and you'll make enough money to double the size of your house.
fuck, i wish i could just go to the woods and wrestle some goblins for their shitty weapons that i can then sell at the supermarket for 5gp a pop
my financial decisions in games are already shit, you can imagine what my bank account looks like
If I could go around selling random junk like burned books and toasters to every vendor in town, I would be doing a LOT better.
That's me optimizing my characters in Genshin Impact using damage calculators.
Life Pro Tip: file for bankruptcy
In games you are petty-bourgeois and own your labor products.