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I don’t see why “playing a game” can’t earn you money. There are many “play to earn” crypto games where 3rd world country gamers grind coins for people who don’t want to grind for money. Before crypto, world of Warcraft had gold mining groups.

I assume there is a market place that offers a currency exchange.

The dollar value is for everyone that doesn’t play the game and doesn’t know if that is a lot or a little of monies.



> I assume there is a market place that offers a currency exchange.

There is not. There might be a black market for this, but not with anything close to this made-up rate.

I'm not saying you can't make money from in-game assets, but you would make a completely different amount of money. Those assets have never been bought or sold at $22,300, so why do we pretend that's their value?

Because different assets can be bought using both dollars and ISK (and cannot be sold for dollars at all!), we decide that's a conversion rate? And apply it to everything else?




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