excerts from interview with ex valve "economist in residence"

[Psymon²]

some very interesting views from someone valve employed to help shape how steam, the store, the "market place", and more...

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/valve-unintentionally-set-the-stage-for-todays-digital-economic-hellscape-according-to-its-former-economist-in-residence/

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/valves-former-economist-says-steam-could-produce-better-macroeconomic-forecasts-than-goldman-sachs-with-the-power-of-crowdsourcing-and-brownie-points/

[Psymon²]

thanks to support for undoing the stealth delete 🥳

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

We all knew in game item economy was a double edged sword.

Valve isn't the only ones that knew this but they were the only ones to make a community trading and marketplace for them. This is the only reason why those games are still going after over a decade.

Other companies made their in game economies very closed off and no way to "carry forward" meant those items were stuck in the older game in the yearly franchise spam.

Publicado originalmente por Psymon²:

thanks to support for undoing the stealth delete 🥳

I'm not surprised it was.

[Ben Lubar]

Team Fortress 2 was far from the first game to have an economy. No working equivalents of the Steam Marketplace have appeared in any other online game stores, so clearly it hasn't changed the world. And claiming that his work at Valve somehow "killed" capitalism is very disingenuous.

[Boblin the Goblin]

Publicado originalmente por Ben Lubar:

Team Fortress 2 was far from the first game to have an economy. No working equivalents of the Steam Marketplace have appeared in any other online game stores, so clearly it hasn't changed the world. And claiming that his work at Valve somehow "killed" capitalism is very disingenuous.

You found the magic word.

[Crazy Tiger]

Publicado originalmente por Ben Lubar:

Team Fortress 2 was far from the first game to have an economy. No working equivalents of the Steam Marketplace have appeared in any other online game stores, so clearly it hasn't changed the world. And claiming that his work at Valve somehow "killed" capitalism is very disingenuous.

Correct. But hyperbole works better to sell views.