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[Ready Player One] Why can't players store their coins/possessions in banks or safes? Or can they?

So I remember in the movie the mercenary guy says to the bad guy something like, "don't blow that bomb, I got ten years worth of shit in me." I was just now wondering, okay ten years, like...

Isn't there an Oasis bank or a safe or something where he could have been storing his shit over those ten years? Like, in real life, I wouldn't carry around my life savings, I'd carry around my wallet with maybe twenty bucks in it at most. Given how integral the virtual world has become to everyone's lives, why wouldn't you be able to do the same there? Or can you, and the mercenary dude just didn't for some reason?
gpt
If there wheren't any banks, they'd be invented in a hurry. You could give money to me in the oasis and i'd stay away from any PvP zones. You could then go to PvP zones and be really reckless. You'd lose only a few items if you died and your newly created character could come back to mine and get their money and items back.


If there wasn't any possibility to bank items people would attempt to give them to a character who keeps them safe in a non-pvp area.

If that was to be restricted, somehow, thereby possibly eliminating trade; people avoid pvp zones all together. There'd be oasis combat simulations within the oasis where you can play a match for fun without risking loss of your stuff.
And if you did restrict oasis trading to avoid item banking people would attempt to get around that. Use oasis creds to buy a lot of real world stuff, do risky stuff, sell stuff for oasis credits.

But in any event People would attach real value to oasis good. You wouldn't want to lose the oasis shirt your girlfriend made for you. It's just pixels of course but then, the wedding band is a hunk of metal. It gains worth that our emotions attach to it.

If i can't protect that from being taken from me because i made a mistake then i just wouldn't go anywhere where such a mistake could prove fatal. No PvP for people wearing a oasis wedding band.


But it would seem there isn't all that much money to be had in gathering up the money from dead players.


We see Wade gathering up money from several dead players and it doesn't even fill up his gas tank half way. Maybe they where all really really poor.

But i doubt people would be getting into a race where losing all of your stuff would be likely.