It was just an example of a game that people sink lots of hours into, and yes, way too much gold, to the point where you are swimming in it even if you aren't t

It was just an example of a game that people sink lots of hours into, and yes, way too much gold, to the point where you are swimming in it even if you aren't trying to grind it. There is also the issue that you can break the crafting system to create single potions that are worth hundreds of thousands of gold and that should probably cause the game universe to be sucked into a black hole, but that is a separate issue.