We’ve written in the past about the life-like struggles for resources and justice in online roleplaying games and universes. Now comes word that EVE Online, a sci-fi MMOG (Massively Multiplayer Online Game), has hired a full-time economist, Eyjólfur Guðmundsson, to help manage the game’s virtual economy. Insert your own joke.
(Hat tip: Derek Guder)
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With apologies to Truman, in EVE, an economist avatar really can have three hands, which helps in giving truthful predictions (“on the other hand…but on the other hand…)
With apologies to Truman, in EVE, an economist avatar really can have three hands, which helps in giving truthful predictions (“on the other hand…but on the other hand…)
I don’t think this is all that strange. I’ve been participating off and on in the fake economy of Neopets.com for over 5 years now.
I don’t think this is all that strange. I’ve been participating off and on in the fake economy of Neopets.com for over 5 years now.
I think every player will just freeze on their game play when the economist recites the incantation “ceteris paribus” a la Harry Potter.
I think every player will just freeze on their game play when the economist recites the incantation “ceteris paribus” a la Harry Potter.
There can never be enough job opportunities for economists because all you have to do is teach a parrot to say “supply equals demand” and guess what you have?
There can never be enough job opportunities for economists because all you have to do is teach a parrot to say “supply equals demand” and guess what you have?