Comment by bsenftner
18 days ago
Financial video games, where the player never sees "finance!" in any of the media marketing of the serious educational product sold as a toy. Seriously, the "rules" of finance pale in complexity when compared to how much intricacy and never-actually-pointless complexity put into simulation games. I expect there are already finance/stock/economic simulation games of a serious nature; make and promote watered down versions and market them in cooperation with serious money paid to the people that actually successfully sell pop culture game software. Yes, a hard sell, I know, I came from those industries, but it can be done.
Isn't Eve Online essentially that.
Starting a newbro corp with a bunch of unemployed high schoolers and decent taxes would make a great lesson on why you want to run a corporation and not be an employee.
I don't play, but from discussions with an addicted buddy, sure sounds like they do serious finance and economic projections as a part of their play strategies. He was in the middle of that event a few years ago where some huge amount of Eve Online players had some giant battle, and the amount of game money destroyed made the mainstream news.