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The Forever Games (Ep. 4)

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Ultima's Economy Offline

I'm excited to hear your perspective on why it was so important at that time. Almost immediately after Ultima launched despite their effort to kind of control the economy in a walled garden items from the game started popping up for sale on things like eBay. You were seeing powered up swords going for hundreds of dollars you know in-world real estate was being sold for thousands of dollars gold farming for profit which is something we've seen evolve over the last 20 years.

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