[sim04ful]

Jokes aside apparently they've hired economist to keep the game's market's stable.

[Cthulhu_]

This was at least a decade ago, but the game's economy seems to be managed well enough. Cost of having stuff transported is still 1M / jump.

[reactordev]

PLEX keeps the markets stable now as they control the flow of PLEX like its Spice from Arrakis

[sitzkrieg]

depends on size, location, contents, risk, a million other factors. people are not paying 1m/jump to get stuffed freightered around by jita lol

[tuzemec]

Wasn't that Yanis Varoufakis?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanis_Varoufakis

[sph]

Nope, Varoufakis consulted with Valve

[tuzemec]

Ah, that's correct.

Got it wrong, because he did write some articles about the EVE economy, like this one: https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2014/01/30/war-spikes-in-the-...

[zipy124]

He has however written about the game before, and been interviewed about it: https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2014/01/30/war-spikes-in-the-...

[throwaw12]

that's very interesting, is there a place to read his achievements related to Steam? genuinely curious, because Steam is very popular now, and wondering what he did there, and whether his theories helped boost Steam economy/marketplace or not