It's becoming a trend for developers to hire economists to help them understand and adjust their increasingly-complex virtual economies. For Guild Wars 2, that man is John Smith. He recently whipped up a blog post full of colorful charts and graphs visualizing data that was collected about Tyria's economy over the course of the beta. Among the more interesting tidbits is a representation of wealth distribution among players. By the end of the beta, 50 percent of players controlled 80 percent of the game's wealth, which he compared to a US statistic from 2007, when 20 percent of citizens controlled 80 percent of the country's wealth.
2DayBlog.com , Guild Wars 2's economist treats us to beta analysis infographics, Guild Wars 2's economist treats us to beta analysis infographics
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