KilgoreTrout wrote on Oct 13
th, 2014 at 11:09am:
This is a very poor replacement for Mabar. I honestly don't understand how a company can have such contempt for their user base and still be in business.
There's something in BDSM called
Financial Domination or
Money Slavery; in it's less extreme forms the sub pays tribute with expensive gifts and gifts of cash. It seems to be a profitable niche market for some women.
So we may simply be masochists.
In psychology, in the within the theory of cognitive dissonance, there's the
effort justification paradigm where behaviours become entrenched and people will go to great lengths to justify bad choices.
There's actually a fair bit of marketing related research (from the applied psychology end) into this. I don't think Turbine knew what they were doing, but they did luck out by falling into a formula which resembles models that purposefully exploit this.
But I don't think you really wanted and answer, sorry
Anyone know if they'll put the Mabar trader up for us during this event?