Virtual Economies and the Real World Consequences

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LONDON, ENGLAND — (Marketwired) — 09/02/13 — The evolution of video gaming has given rise to vast and nuanced virtual economies, many of which share an affinity with real world equivalents and offer a landscape on which to implement complex economic models. Titles such as Eve Online accommodate over 500,000 players – who each rack up an average of 22 hours game time a week and shed $200 a year on subscription fees – which goes some way to explain how virtual worlds can often mirror real worl

Industry Veteran Sean Decker Joins CCP as Senior Vice President, Product Development

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REYKJAVIK, ICELAND — (Marketwired) — 07/02/13 — , the world-s leading independent developer of massively multiplayer games, today announced it has hired Sean Decker as its new senior vice president of product development. Decker will lead the company-s worldwide game development, overseeing the company-s studios in Reykjavik, Shanghai, Atlanta, and Newcastle.Decker comes to CCP from game developer and publisher Electronic Arts (EA), where he spent the last 12 years in a variety of key produc

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