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MMO syndrome of spending lots of time/money on an upgrade and when it's finally done it's almost nothing, but just enough to win. The artifact I created isn't "almost nothing" at all, but there is no sense of power when holding it. It does nothing at all. It's not that I directly bought something with physical money (how would that work anyway) but I did give up possible paths to income in choosing to invest in this instead. But that's beside the point. The artifact has all the power I wanted, but only in terms of numbers or status, it only has that effect, very locally, when used.

If you've worked with something involving pricing, you'll understand what I mean with setting prices almost too high and selling things that are almost not worth it, while making it seem like it has a lot of value for the customer. Once they pay, that is the factual market price of the item.

This is even more unrelated to the original topic but I experienced this in a very well performed way when visiting an elven temple during an astral session. They sell things that are perfectly tuned like this, and what's worse (maybe the wrong wording but I feel like this) is that they sell things that actually work. You can buy literal immortality standard magic from them, and it's legit. You just need to be compatible and have the money. I don't know what the rate is or how this measures to other things, but I suspect it's "way too much" again, they said 3 gold (=300 silver) for a session. I just manifested 3 gold from my pocket money stash without looking at how much that actually is and it worked (I don't want to know, it's probably a huge sum). It again removes some of the mystery placed over this field, in the end it comes down to something measurable.