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The move to f2p games with micro transactions was done with the help of Yanis Varoufakis, a libertarian-marxist (his own words) Greek economist and politician w
by CodeArtisan 2y ago
The move to f2p games with micro transactions was done with the help of Yanis Varoufakis, a libertarian-marxist (his own words) Greek economist and politician who once served as Greece's Minister of Finance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanis_Varoufakis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanis_Varoufakis
https://web.archive.org/web/20140328192036/http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/economics/it-all-began-with-a-strange-email/ https://web.archive.org/web/20140328192036/http://blogs.valv...
https://web.archive.org/web/20140219161902/http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/economics/arbitrage-and-equilibrium-in-the-team-fortress-2-economy/ https://web.archive.org/web/20140219161902/http://blogs.valv...
- 1propionyl 2y agoThis is, at least to me, a very strange leap of a conclusion from the sources posted (and general awareness of Valve and TF2 and Varoufakis etc otherwise)
- whazor 2y agoYou don’t need an economist to know that micro transactions are lucrative.
- m463 2y agoBut an economist would know how to keep the money flowing.