I haven't played in years, but for those who say that WoW is 'over,' It's still worth more than a nations currency. I'm not even talking some itty bitty country. Amazing.
http://fortune.com/2017/08/01/venezuela-bolivar-world-of-warcraft-currency/
I self identify as a monkey.
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The other is similar to Mexico,drug cartels run these countries/government and ruin every essence of what a country should be.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
Ideally returning to a game after not playing it for months or years even should feel like you played it last week.
"We all do the best we can based on life experience, point of view, and our ability to believe in ourselves." - Naropa "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." SR Covey
Venezuela's problem is the government of president-turned-dictator Hugo Chavez, and since his death, Nicolas Maduro. Venezuela is oil-rich and was once wealthy by the standards of Latin America. It used to be one of the four main oil exporters to the United States (along with Canada, Mexico, and Saudi Arabia). If you saw a Citgo gas station, that was Venezuela's oil company.
But Chavez and then Maduro wanted to implement their vision of socialism. Eventually they ran out of other people's money and needed to spend money that they didn't have and couldn't borrow. Printing currency so that you can spend it is how you get hyperinflation. And that's how your currency becomes a joke and you get articles like the above.
Venezuela actually isn't the most extreme example of this. 1923 Germany and 2008 Zimbabwe are the famous extremes. That leads to things like this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_Zimbabwe#/media/File:Zimbabwe_$100_trillion_2009_Obverse.jpg
The real problem is when people view your currency as nearly worthless because it won't hold its value. You might be happy to accept a dollar bill today because you figure that it will still be worth about as much by the time you spend it, even if it's a month or a year later. If you think that that dollar bill will only be worth half as much in a month, you'll be a lot less happy to accept it as payment.
There were stories during an Argentine hyperinflation about businesses paying their employees multiple times per day because if they held the payment for two weeks or whatever, what employees earned near the start of the pay period would be worth far less than would be fair by the end of it. That leads to get your money and if you want to save any, exchange it for a foreign currency as quickly as you can.
If they had raised the learning curve and that was his issue he wouldn't be coming back because the game would be too difficult to re-learn / comprehend.
His issue is that he is too far behind in the gear grind now. That's a gear curve issue.
Venezuela made a ton of poor economic decisions, and the country is paying the price as it spirals down the tubes. Charismatic demagogues often don't have good plans for running things. And the guy in charge there now doesn't have near the charisma of Chavez.
It is weird to think of investing in WoW currencies as useful hedges against your country's destabilization though.
If you are holding out for the perfect game, the only game you play will be the waiting one.
The value of anything is determined by the receiver. What is one willing to give up for what one is willing to have.
Wizardry said: Should remain? If someone finds something of currency or barter value, would be absurd to think that one could not trade it.
In the end -- I'll repeat myself here -- What is one willing to give up for what one is willing to have. There isn't some big book of values out there, it's all belief. Without the belief in currency or anything it is worth nothing but the paper it's printed on.
If you are holding out for the perfect game, the only game you play will be the waiting one.