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> UO economies themselves being matter of study More than that, in regard to MMOs in general: both Cory Doctorow and Neil Stephenson wrote books involving exch
by aasasd 4y ago
> UO economies themselves being matter of study
More than that, in regard to MMOs in general: both Cory Doctorow and Neil Stephenson wrote books involving exchange of money in MMOs, remarking that bringing a bag of gold to another dude in the game is an actual method of transferring money cross-border without oversight, used by mobs. I vaguely heard (and again mentioned by Doctorow) that the size of economy of larger games like WoW can dwarf not-so-small countries.
- aasasd 4y agoThough the latter bit about the ‘size of economy’ is doubtful to me: the populations of top MMOs are in millions each, but surely the players don't spend the sums of their monthly rent and food bills in the games. This report from January 2021 puts the daily volume of transactions in WoW at about two million USD: https://massivelyop.com/2021/01/21/world-of-warcraft-players-move-21b-gold-through-the-economy-every-day/ https://massivelyop.com/2021/01/21/world-of-warcraft-players... I eyeballed the rate for late-ish 2021 from this hastily found site, at 20 bucks per 200k gold—seemed to change little in the past year, so hopefully holds true for January 2021 as well: https://www.playerauctions.com/market-price-tracker/wow/ https://www.playerauctions.com/market-price-tracker/wow/