• HexBroke [any, comrade/them]
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    2 months ago

    Beginning in March 2012, Varoufakis became economist-in-residence at video game publisher, Valve. He researched the virtual economy of the Steam digital delivery platform, specifically focusing on exchange rates and trade deficits.

    gamer-gulag

    • SerLava [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      Yeah all games with any kind of p2p shop, using real or fake money, actually need a lot of work to make sure the prices don't go ape shit in either direction

      In a lot of wow servers a level 5 character could pick literally the most common flower and sell it to some max level guy on the auction house for 1 gold each (10,000 copper) , which is 100 times the value of all his equipment and all of his quests for the next day or so of gameplay.