Market Infographics?

Market Infographics?

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Posted by: Mckeone.9804

Mckeone.9804

It’s been a while since we’ve had fun infographics.
Any chance we can get some general statistics about the health of the market and differences by region?

For example:

  • Average player engagement with the TP
  • Average number of transactions per day
  • Average size of transactions
  • Average value of transactions
  • Average trader activity
  • Market Momentum (Change in Value x the Aggregate Size of Market)
  • Market Size (in USD/EUR/CNY terms – perhaps based on the cumulative mean of the bid-ask spread for items on TP in gold value, converted to gems and then real currencies)
  • Most popular gemstore items

I think it would be interesting to see what the GW2 economy stacks up to, in GDP terms.

Market Infographics?

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Posted by: Rouven.7409

Rouven.7409

All in favour of fun infografics say aye!

(Welcome to John Smith’s Fun with Infos …)

“Whose Kitten is this?” – “It’s a Charr baby.”
“Whose Charr is this?”- “Ted’s.”
“Who’s Ted?”- “Ted’s dead, baby. Ted’s dead.”

Market Infographics?

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Posted by: Vol.7601

Vol.7601

The last time this was requested (over a year ago), JS said that doing a blogpost infographic takes time (and it has to be localized as well)

But I do think it would be nice to see some infographics.

That being said, any results would most certainly be fodder for the anti-rich/anti-BLTC crowd.

They could glance at a 0.5% increase in prices and overreact and proclaim inflation is dangerous and hurrp durp

Market Infographics?

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Posted by: Mckeone.9804

Mckeone.9804

Durps are gonna durp. They durp already about gem prices and everything else under the sun that they don’t like.

Beyond us people who are interested in the economic side of the game, however, I think it would be good from a marketing POV. Eve seems to get a lot of good press for its economic system, and beyond Eve’s superior trading tools (please, JS, give us better trading tools and let us trade on the balance in our “pick up” account), it still has a fairly fragmented (inefficient) market system.

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Posted by: Rouven.7409

Rouven.7409

To those we shall quote Andrew Lang.

“He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts … for support, rather than illumination.”

“Whose Kitten is this?” – “It’s a Charr baby.”
“Whose Charr is this?”- “Ted’s.”
“Who’s Ted?”- “Ted’s dead, baby. Ted’s dead.”