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title: Virtual game economy
date: "2002-12-14T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 999
description: I highlight the emergence of virtual game economies where trading digital assets resulted in a GNP per capita between Bulgaria and Russia. These early reports analyze how massively multiplayer games function as legitimate economic systems.
keywords: [virtual economy, mmorpg, digital assets, gnp, game economics, online games]
---

On the [virtual economy](http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.01/gaming.html). No, this is not about the dot-com boom. This is about the trading of goods in online games, which has created an economy with a GNP per capita somewhere between Bulgaria and Russia. (More at [New Scientist](http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993180)). [via missing matter](http://missingmatter.net/article.pl?sid=02/12/13/1618247)