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Interview with the EVE Economist

Posted September 14th, 2007 by Aelryn

So... tell me more about this "economics" thing.

Slashdot has an interesting interview with the man behind the economics of EVE up today.

Earlier this month Dr. Eyjólfur "Eyjo" Guðmundsson, the newly hired EVE Online economist, released his first market report looking at the mining and trade of minerals within CCP's massively multiplayer online game. I had a chance to speak to Dr. Guðmundsson at GDC Austin, to further understand why it is that an online game needs an econ professor on staff. We discussed his work on the mineral information, future plans, the reality of trust in an inherently hostile world and why that makes for a bad banking environment, and a few words on player communication from CCP CEO Hilmar Petursson. Read on for the full interview.

Read the full interview over at Slashdot.


EVE Online Details

    Windows Mac Linux (unsupported)
  • Developer: CCP|White Wolf
  • Genre: Sci-Fi
  • Status: Published
  • Official Website
  • Official Forums
  • Retail Price: $19.95
  • Monthly Fee: ~$14.95
  • Release Date: May 6, 2003
  • ESRB Rating: T (Teen)

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