The New Gold Rush (Ep. 8)
Gamecraft
The Virtual Currency Crisis in EverQuest
In the spring of 2013, Blizzard's online game Diablo 3 experienced mudflation. Some observers at the time called it a virtual Weimar. It can get so bad that money is no longer even in demand. Maybe EverQuest just simply had a poor virtual economy design early on.
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