I have a new goal in life, from the twisted world of my new MMORPG addiction.
As of Friday May 20th, 2005:
1 US$ Dollar = 6,190.40 Zimbabwe Dollar
1 US$ Dollar = 4,642.00 Zambian Kwacha
1 US$ Dollar = 23,830.0 Mozambique Metical
1 US$ Dollar = 15,850.0 Vietnamese Dong
1 US$ Dollar = 7,900.00 Iranian Rial
1 US$ Dollar = 10.97 Mexican Peso
As of May 20th, 2005 Prices on Ebay:
1 US$ Dollar = 4,000.00Gold in the MMORPG Guild Wars.
1 US$ Dollar = 10Gold in the MMORPG World of WarCraft.
As far as the ebay 'money market' is concerned GWs are a stronger currency than those of Zimbabwe, Zambia, Iran, Vietnam, Mozambique, and only slightly weaker than a few others I neglected to mention.
And 1 WoW is (slightly stronger) roughly equivalent, to one mexican peso.
My future as a fictional currency economist is going to be bright and grand indeed. I'll be the Magus of a strange new career, Greenspan meets Gandalf.
Now, i'm not sure this information really tells us much, other than what the money is trading for. 10 WoW buys 1 US dollar. 10 Pesos buy one US dollar. Of course we don't know the relative purchasing power of each or anything about the strength of the economies. Just because the Yen is 100.00 to the dollar doesn't mean a Japanese Burger flipper isn't making 500 to our flippers 5$. Also.. a burger here may cost $5.00 but in Japan it may cost 500.
I guess we won't be able to determine much about the WoW or GW until they start selling burgers in-game. It will be difficult, but I guess my next task is to determine the GDP, and GNP of the respective game-worlds, exports and imports and whatnot.
The only conclusions I can draw is that we'd better hope the WoW's value doesn't plummet due to usurious east coast banks and a dive in world oil prices. Although if that did happen then we'd likely find most of our lawn and gardening work done by Orcs and Elves.. both of which are races renowned for having green thumbs... so to speak.
Also, if someone from the US was interested in visiting the world of Azeroth, now would be a good time due to the relative weakness of the WoW.
Over the next few weeks and months I will be gathering as much data as I can.
Or, instead, just whacking things with my mace.
I think that sounds more fun.
As of Friday May 20th, 2005:
1 US$ Dollar = 6,190.40 Zimbabwe Dollar
1 US$ Dollar = 4,642.00 Zambian Kwacha
1 US$ Dollar = 23,830.0 Mozambique Metical
1 US$ Dollar = 15,850.0 Vietnamese Dong
1 US$ Dollar = 7,900.00 Iranian Rial
1 US$ Dollar = 10.97 Mexican Peso
As of May 20th, 2005 Prices on Ebay:
1 US$ Dollar = 4,000.00Gold in the MMORPG Guild Wars.
1 US$ Dollar = 10Gold in the MMORPG World of WarCraft.
As far as the ebay 'money market' is concerned GWs are a stronger currency than those of Zimbabwe, Zambia, Iran, Vietnam, Mozambique, and only slightly weaker than a few others I neglected to mention.
And 1 WoW is (slightly stronger) roughly equivalent, to one mexican peso.
My future as a fictional currency economist is going to be bright and grand indeed. I'll be the Magus of a strange new career, Greenspan meets Gandalf.
Now, i'm not sure this information really tells us much, other than what the money is trading for. 10 WoW buys 1 US dollar. 10 Pesos buy one US dollar. Of course we don't know the relative purchasing power of each or anything about the strength of the economies. Just because the Yen is 100.00 to the dollar doesn't mean a Japanese Burger flipper isn't making 500 to our flippers 5$. Also.. a burger here may cost $5.00 but in Japan it may cost 500.
I guess we won't be able to determine much about the WoW or GW until they start selling burgers in-game. It will be difficult, but I guess my next task is to determine the GDP, and GNP of the respective game-worlds, exports and imports and whatnot.
The only conclusions I can draw is that we'd better hope the WoW's value doesn't plummet due to usurious east coast banks and a dive in world oil prices. Although if that did happen then we'd likely find most of our lawn and gardening work done by Orcs and Elves.. both of which are races renowned for having green thumbs... so to speak.
Also, if someone from the US was interested in visiting the world of Azeroth, now would be a good time due to the relative weakness of the WoW.
Over the next few weeks and months I will be gathering as much data as I can.
Or, instead, just whacking things with my mace.
I think that sounds more fun.
I'll be the Magus of a strange new career, Greenspan meets Gandalf.
Hahaha. That is awesome.
Gandalf was dope, but Greenspan? Now that's power.