¡®Economy¡¯ of on-line game resembles real-life
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Malicious rumors have caused the cost of materials to skyrocket and momentarily frozen the markets. Some materials are 100 times more expensive than they were a few months ago.

This is not happening in Zimbabwe, where hyperinflation has run rampant, but in popular online games in Korea.

Real-money trading in South Korea took off in the late 1990s with online game Lineage. Ten years later, the practice is firmly set among Korean gamers.

The phenomenon is particularly noticeable in Blizzard Entertainment’s Diablo 3, which includes a real-money auction house inside the game. Although South Korean users are banned from using the auction house, several unofficial websites are enabling real-money trading.

As a result, a complicated economic system resembling that of the real world has been established in cyberspace. Various factors like rumors, policies by the authorities --  in this case the developers -- and rapidly changing supply all affect market price, just like in real life.

Accordingly, problems and crimes also occur within games such as Diablo 3.

The most notable difficulty is inflation. Soaring prices induced by rumors and false information even led to escalating disparity among users.

In order to obtain valuable items, a user has to kill powerful monsters, meaning the rich; users with more expensive items can easily get richer while the rest are stuck in poverty.

Even worse, the influx of gold –- currency used in Diablo 3 –- by the “rich” users further devalues the currency and aggravates inflation.

In addition to the worsening economy, the users are vulnerable to scammers and swindlers.

Consequently, users logging on to the game are complaining that they are confronted with a harsh "reality" even in cyberspace.

Diablo 3 is a popular role-playing game developed by Blizzard Entertainment. Upon its release in May, it enjoyed enormous success in South Korea but its population has been slowly declining recently amid user complaints about unstable servers and "poor content," according to recent news reports.






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