KurtFunnygut

Hi David,

I read some foundational information about your research, and I have three questions:

1. What do you think is the most interesting aspect of a virtual economy from a research standpoint?

2. If you had unlimited resources, what kind of experiments would you perform in virtual economies.

3. What is the biggest limiting factor in the study of virtual economies?

Thank you for the response, and I love that you say a game like WoW could be used for educational purposes. The fact that so many users feel obligated to play is indicative that the developers of WoW know something about risk / reward and getting users interested in realistically boring tasks. If these concepts of tangible, immediate rewards could be implemented into scaffolding techniques in education I think we would see a huge increase in the effectiveness of education.

Edited to improve readability.

Not sure you'll have time to answer this, but in one of your blog posts you mentioned that there were several questions that could be studied by economists in a MMO environment. Could you elaborate on one or two of these questions? Would love to explore myself but don't really have a direction.

Nice observation

I don't think the seller sees the percent difference anyway, like that profit doesn't enter their hands. But I guess that is what you're trying to find out.