GameUSD.com

I just came across this website which tracks and graphs the values of Virtual Currencies vs the US Dollar over time. As I flipped through the various MMORPG titles I noticed a pretty common trend - every game sorely suffers from inflation. Some more than others. I guess it’s expected, but I was surpised how much the value of the currency has declined over the last year. For instnace, in World of Warcraft the price for gold has dropped 600% since last January. I wonder if the cause has more to do with the increased population of gold farmers, or that players have already purchased everything they’ve ever wanted for their characters and thus the demand for money is down.

Only one game has had it’s currency’s value drastically increase over a given time segment - Eve Online, and I bet that was when that corporation’s entire bank account was syphoned-off by a embedded spy working for a competing faction (true story).

Note to self - there isn’t much a future in gold farming these days.

~DDB