The New Gold Rush (Ep. 8)
Gamecraft
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CCP and the Virtual Economy
CCP has "turned lemons into lemonade in a lot of ways," says author. The game's complexity and openness have produced new kinds of weirdnesses, he adds. In 2021, for example, players anticipating a game-wide mining nerf developed a short selling strategy before CCP was able to make adjustments. There are battles that have taken place that have taken three to five hundred thousand dollars worth of real money out of the EVE economy in one-filled swoop.
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