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0 pointslotharbot13y ago0 comments

> "But many of them just stop playing by chance"

I suspect this will be one of the significant weaknesses in trying to translate anything learned in a game economy into real economies. You have much better data in a game economy, but people do grow bored or decide they're just not good enough, and move on. Or people decide they've taken a stupid path and reset their account, and build from scratch. In real life, most people try to keep living even if they're at the bottom end of the economy and don't have the means to change that. This strikes me as a fundamental difference between the virtual and the real.

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yk13y ago

Great, I learn by being misunderstood :) I did think about people who stop playing because of outside events, like a new season of "Game of thrones" or a girl, not about ingame events.

However, there is of course a fundamental bias in game economies. Another example would be, that in game economies people use unethical tactics, like simply killing competition. ( I did not hear of Bing-hordes raiding the Google HQ.)

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yk13y ago

Great, I learn by being misunderstood :) I did think about people who stop playing because of outside events, like a new season of "Game of thrones" or a girl, not about ingame events.

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