It's a bit of an overstatement perhaps, but being a Game Designer requires that you have knowledge in... well A LOT of the aspects of life.
With that said - perhaps they do have 1-2 economists, which simply have such a degree but are on the teams to do other things, related more to games, like programming or art.
I could only imagined that they pulled in some kind of "Internet-economy-gold-in-online-RPG-games-expert" i mean, there is potentially gonna be alot of money floating around the RM AH's so i would think that some sort of expert knowledge has been used in designing this. I mean, it is just to big a thing for Blizzard to just say: "Let's release it and see how it goes". I dont think they would ever do that. I think they try to plan everything as much as possible (as should they i almost every aspects of the game).
As long as he didn't come from making Popcap stuff and Xbox-Live I'm happy.
I actually made a youtube channel a while back called d3economist, was thinking about trying this very venture but ended up not being as nerdy as I needed to be to pull it off haha
With that said - perhaps they do have 1-2 economists, which simply have such a degree but are on the teams to do other things, related more to games, like programming or art.
Ha. Bagstone.
As long as he didn't come from making Popcap stuff and Xbox-Live I'm happy.
JK
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then how come we have not heard from this someone yet?
If the final reveal is not a cinematic then i think it will have to do with the economy.