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I don't get it.
You're saying that IRE sees itself as centrally PvP, and that most of your sales are driven by PvP. I get that.
On a "bashing" game, you would presumably buy items to get a leg up on NPCs, saving time on the hypothetical treadmill. On a PvP game, you would presumably buy items to get a leg up on PCs. (If the items didn't give you a leg up on PCs, why would people buy them in a predominately PvP game?)
The only difference is that in a "bashing" game, you'd get an absolute edge (since NPCs don't have RL money to spend and can't improve themselves) instead of a relative edge (you only have an edge on people that spend nothing, or spend less than you do).
Why is selling things for RL cash desirable in the PvP model and not in the bashing model? Because of the escalating sales produced by the arms-race competition necessary to keep up with Ye Olde Joneses?
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