Terra Nova is hosting a rather interesting discussion about the lack of an active market for services in World of Warcraft.In looking at the economics of WoW, I've been struck by the absence of a market for services. There is an active market for items, of course, since Blizzard built this into the system and, as we've discussed many times before, it's really hard to build a game-style MMOG that doesn't develop its own internal market for valuable items. But there is almost no market for services, either game-supported or player-created. |