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Animal Crossing’s fame has made it less like paradise and more like Wall Street
- seven4 6y agoAs someone who hasn't played Animal Crossing - this is kind of surreal. Sounds like a glitch in the way game mechanics allowed users to hyper-inflate the primary currency (by manually changing the time on their system) - and saw the economy migrate to a currency which more readily fits with a model of "unforgeable costliness". Great writeup on that by Nick Szabo http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2005/10/antiques-time-gold-and-bit-gold.html http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2005/10/antiques-time-gold-...