[awkward]

The best example of this is probably the Diablo 3 real money auction house. It was a launch feature of the game that would allow items to be sold for real money or in game gold.

It was removed about eighteen months in, because it made the metagame significantly less fun. Switching from a localized rarity table with some light trading to an efficient global market meant that finding anything less than best in class equipment (bounded to level) was a disappointment compared to what could be bought on the market, and had to be to avoid flooding market supply.

Getting rid of the market and implementing more generous local loot algorithms probably gave the game at least 5 years more life.

[LargeWu]

Thanks for the history lesson. I think this is a much more compelling argument than "blockchain dumb".