Analyzing Wild Online Game Economies
The traditional wisdom in game psychoanalysis focuses on participant retentivity or monetization funnels, but a truly riotous view examines the sudden, player-driven economies that operate like unregulated frontier markets. These are not the in-game shops designed by developers, but the ecosystems of resourcefulness trading, real-money minutes(RMT), and service provisioning that thrive in the integer wilds….
