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All the excitement around GameStop’s stock has bled into GamesBeat’s discussions around the metaverse. And it turns out that stock market manipulation isn’t exclusive to the physical world.
“We had forms of short squeezes happening in the economy of Eve Online,” said CCP CEO Hilmar Petursson of the MMO’s in-game economy. “It was kind of a form of what’s happening to GameStop right now.”
Petursson joined moderator Mike Vorhaus of Vorhaus Partners to discuss Eve Online’s role as one of the earliest metaverses during GamesBeat’s Into The Metaverse event. Petursson and Vorhaus also discussed what it means to be a metaverse and the growth of Eve Online during the panel.
Petursson didn’t go into specifics about the in-game short squeezes, but added that gamers have manipulated their market in the same ways the real stock market is being manipulated right now.
“Reality is giving us a run for our money right now,” Petursson said. Eve Online did have a player-made stock market for a short time, but it isn’t currently in the game and hasn’t been available for the majority of its 17-year lifespan.
GameStop is currently going through a bit of a crowdsourced phenomenon. A large group of loosely organized retail traders have snatched up GameStop stocks in order to increase their value. Hedge funds that have shorted those stocks have had to pay up after losing their bet. The situation is ongoing.
Eve Online’s in-game systems are vast and complicated, so it’s not difficult to imagine how players could use the in-game economy in similar ways. The MMO’s capability to replicate real-world constructs, like religion and the stock market, have been key in making it a metaverse, according to Petursson.
“Eve Online is somewhere between a virtual world and game,” he said, talking about the word metaverse actually means. He combined the literal meaning of each word, “meta” and “verse,” to create a makeshift definition. “Verse meaning a world,” he added. “If you think of a world — a planet is a world. So if you’re building a virtual world, you’re building a habitat.”
Petursson then summarized the “meta” aspect of metaverses as something that exists in multiple worlds. He talked about the friendships, love stories, and rivalries that have come to fruition in the game. They exist both in and outside Eve Online.
“For the first 10 years we didn’t think of it as a metaverse,” he said, adding that their view changed as they witnessed more interactions as the game grew.
Eve Online Live Market Today
Eve Online added 1.3 million new players in 2020, continuing it’s 17-year streak of success. It, alongside games like Ultima Online, is one of the earliest examples of studios developing online metaverses for players to live in.
And as we’ve seen, even a metaverse can be subject to outside manipulation.
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This guide will teach how to use the EVE Online Market, with everything from making ISK to buying at the best prices.People whodo market sellingare either NPC corporations, or player characters. You, too, can do market selling, but making a good market profit takes more effort than just sellingto whoever you find. This guide will help teach someways to increase EVE Online market profits.
The Basics of Making Profit
When one buys an item in the market view, one is accepting a market price set byanother player character, or by an NPC corporation that is selling this itemin the market.You'll notice that different prices are available from different stationmarkets.
Eve Online Live Market Prices
To sell an item, put it into your station hangar (click the Items tab on the left), right-click an item, and choose 'sell' to make it appear in the market. A window will pop up asking how much you'rewilling to sell it in the market for, and how long you want it to be available forpurchase.
The strategy for making a market profit comes from where you sell itand how much you sell it for. In general, if an item is widely availablein a region and you sell it for a much higher price than most other people areselling it for in the market, it's unlikely that anyone will buy it. But if yourprice is too low, you might be missing an opportunity to makemore money from that sale.
The availability of an item in a region's market is also important to consider. Trying to sell an item in the market that nobody is selling nearby might mean that nobody is interested in buying that item, or it might meanthat that item is difficult to acquire and therefore very valuable.
Check for Buyers
Eve Online Market
Sometimes one can find buyers who want to buy your items for much higher prices than most people are selling in the market it for. It's unlikely tohappen, because most buyers will not spend a lot of money on an item that they can easily get cheaply in the market,and because if someone were offering to buy it for a high price, some other seller might make thatsale first.
Look around, though, to find regions of space wherean item will sell in the market fora higher price than what was paid. An item that is cheap in one region might be hard to come by in another. But remember: if you buy something at a low price and want to make a profit from its sale, a selling price has to be more than twice the amount paid. That way,one can get more money than one started with.
Choosing the Station from which to Sell
Where to sell your items? Pick a market of a station that has a lot of traffic and a lot of pilots, or, at the very least, in a stationthat's in a solar system with many pilots and lots of traffic. If you're selling something at a station or system where nobody really hangs out, your items might not sell very quickly, if at all, unless you're selling it for a pricethat is quite a bit lower than what others are selling it for.
Also consider what you're selling. In a system where a lot ofcombat occurs, it's possible to sell weapons and ammunition for fairly good prices, particularly in a station wherethere are agents who tend to offer mostly encounter missions. If you're selling ore, find a station of a miningcorporation and sell there.
Setting the Price
Don't set a price so high that nobody will be willing to payit, butdon't set your selling price so low that agood profit is impossible.
Check your local market to see how much people are selling an item fornearby. Usually, don't set your price higher than this, but it mightnot be a good idea to sell it for a price below the selling price of everyone else. A pilot might still buy what you're selling even if it's not cheapest in that region.
The key thing to remember is that pilots are lazy. If there are a many same types of items for sale in a station's market but differentprices, it's almost certain that someone will buy your item if your priceis the lowest in that station's market. This isn't always to your advantage, butsometimes prices in a station's market are much higher than they are in most ofa region, so there is still a decent profit.
Adjusting your price
If you find that other items for sale in the market have dropped in price andyour asking price is no longer competitive, it might be necessary to modifyyour market sell order via your Wallet. A broker fee is required to do this,so try to set the best price in the first place.
Reducing market costs
Setting up a market sell order costs money. However, there are some Trade skillsone can train to reduce these costs. Broker Relations will reduce broker fees,and Accounting reduces transaction tax.