25 Video Game Mechanics That Simply Don't Work In Real Life
4. Paying Your Opponents Money If You Lose A Battle
Imagine if every time you lost a confrontation of some kind, you lost your money? Admittedly this can happen if you are on the unfortunate end of a mugging, or have a local bully who likes to nick your lunch money. But what we're talking about is that every single time you lose an argument and/or a fight, you're paying up for it.
God, imagine how often you'd end up paying your other half!
It makes more sense for this mechanic to stay in the world of videogames, where there doesn't always appear to be a way to earn vast sums of cash other than nicking it from those who you deem lesser than you.