Economics and Video games (Chocolate and peanut butter)
 

My favorite econ podcast, planet money, just posted about Economics in TF2:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/...virtual-worlds

It seems that Valve had hired an economist to figure out how the heck all this economy stuff works:
http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/category/economics/

I'm so totally psyched to follow this conversation. How do all you all feel about the Valve economy? Have you ever been hit by a bubble?

Re: Economics and Video games (Chocolate and peanut butter)
 

Will have to check this out, I enjoy some of the economics-lite of recent years. Thanks for the link.

Re: Economics and Video games (Chocolate and peanut butter)
 

It's somewhat interesting. It appears that Valve is looking at different ways to make real money, selling virtual commodities through Steam.

Re: Economics and Video games (Chocolate and peanut butter)
 

That is some interesting stuff. "Economics and Video games" this is really interesting to sell virtual commodities online.