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In-game economies #38

Open Vlek opened 1 year ago

Vlek commented 1 year ago

It would be interesting to take a look at various games and see how their economies work, both MMO and single player.

I know that there was a paper written about UO's economy and how the player base killed it rather quickly as the idea broke.

Also, in looking at this, can I get any insights into what could potentially work?

Are making things like marketplaces good for games by making it easier to get to goods? What about trying to impose taxes? And can that still be fun?

Vlek commented 1 year ago

Would also be nice to talk about now money gets to be meaningless about halfway to three quarters of the way through games.

Vlek commented 3 weeks ago

Here is an article specifically on Ultima Online: https://mobiledevmemo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/The-In-game-Economics-of-Ultima-Online.pdf

Here's an interview with Richard Garriott about how players killed the ecology as stated above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFNxJVTJleE