Mclaftion is another name for rice gouging, false inflation, or arbitrarily raising prices and then blaming it on inflation when there’s no inflationary causality.
“Dude a 3-day park hopper used to be $140 ten years ago and a single day is $235??”
“Yup, that’s Mcflation for you.”
“Yup, that’s Mcflation for you.”
by DickTrickle619 August 18, 2024
Get the Mcflation mug.Mudflation is the term used to describe inflation in MMOs.
Unlike in a real economy, there is no fixed amount of currency that circulates, but the amount of currency in circulation continuously increases - whenever a player sells an item to an NPC or receives ingame currency as a reward for a quest, this amount is added onto the money already in circulation, whereas in a real economy, this amount would not be conjured from thin air, but taken out of another entities funds.
Mudflation is very undesirable, as it makes gearing up significantly harder for new players.
Popular Anti-Mudflation mechanisms include ingame mail fees, auction house fees, repairs, upgrading or refining fees or consumables.
More recent East-Asian MMORPGs often have a tendency to have too efficient Anti-Mudflation mechanisms, causing players to become "poorer" as they progress in the game.
Unlike in a real economy, there is no fixed amount of currency that circulates, but the amount of currency in circulation continuously increases - whenever a player sells an item to an NPC or receives ingame currency as a reward for a quest, this amount is added onto the money already in circulation, whereas in a real economy, this amount would not be conjured from thin air, but taken out of another entities funds.
Mudflation is very undesirable, as it makes gearing up significantly harder for new players.
Popular Anti-Mudflation mechanisms include ingame mail fees, auction house fees, repairs, upgrading or refining fees or consumables.
More recent East-Asian MMORPGs often have a tendency to have too efficient Anti-Mudflation mechanisms, causing players to become "poorer" as they progress in the game.
Bob sells 20 Smelly Livers to NPC Jim.
Bob receives 10 Gold which the game has just created.
Money in circulation: XXXX Gold + 10 Gold -> Mudflation
Bob sells a can of Red Bull to Joe.
Bob receives 2 Dollars, Joe loses 2 Dollars.
Money in circulation: unchanged
Bob receives 10 Gold which the game has just created.
Money in circulation: XXXX Gold + 10 Gold -> Mudflation
Bob sells a can of Red Bull to Joe.
Bob receives 2 Dollars, Joe loses 2 Dollars.
Money in circulation: unchanged
by vizzla January 21, 2011
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Language created by adding the prefix Mc to nouns or verbs. Inspired by McDonalds restaurants being everywhere you look.
by McGrumpy June 2, 2009
Get the McLatin mug.The process of an object accidentally falling to the ground, only to land up in the most illogical location imaginable. One could also use this term to describe a thought process that becomes so derailed, as to end up being the most improbable and awkward. To mislate something.
Yesterday, I had a case of mislation. As I took my keys out of my pocket, my friends wedding ring fell out and I couldn't find it. An hour later when I was in the kitchen, I found it in the drawer resting under a tea-strainer!
You've got to see Adam when he's been drinking, total mislation of thought. He started off telling me about his job and ended on a conversation about snail venom.
You've got to see Adam when he's been drinking, total mislation of thought. He started off telling me about his job and ended on a conversation about snail venom.
by Billy-Bob Savage October 31, 2010
Get the Mislation mug.MafLationship (noun) — a relationship, usually exclusively carried out through phone, video chat, and internet, originating between two or more people who met in or through the Mafia Mystery community
by troutorama April 26, 2021
Get the Maflationship mug.The intense friendship between two guys that may even be borderline homosexual. This can be synonymous with heterolifemate.
Bill and Ted have been in a manlationship for a long time now. Their girlfriends are starting to get jealous.
by Colto22 May 18, 2009
Get the manlationship mug.Mudflation is an economic issue that exists only in massively multiplayer online games. Mudflation occurs when a more recently acquired or introduced item makes an existing item lose significant value. This is most common when a game releases a new expansion, as expansions tend to have better items.
The problem it seems was Blizzard was afraid of Mudflation. They didn't fully understand that it was going to happen regardless so they made instances with blues that were still less then MC gear
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