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May 21, 2013 11:55 am PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/yznCs_5_ExI/story01.htm
In-gamehyperinflation
Here's a totally amazing and fascinating story about hyperinflation crashing the economy of Blizzard's massively multiplayer online RPG Diablo 3. Blizzard blew its economic strategy for Diablo 3 by making the "sinks" (places where gold is taken out of the economy) unattractive, adding in real-money-for-stuff trades, and then letting a bug run wild. Before you [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/yznCs_5_ExI/story01.htm
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