A GDP? - Blue Tracker

#1 - June 16, 2014, 4:20 p.m.

This isn’t anything “required” by any standard, but… if you look in an almanac, or around a few government websites, you can find a listing of the Gross Domestic Product of many, many nations.

Wouldn’t it be cool if there was something like that for GW2? This is one of those hidden variables, and I’ve always wondered if Anet is monitoring how much gold is in the economy, and how much gold the average player has. If they are, wouldn’t it be cool to know that stuff?

John Smith

#9 - June 17, 2014, 1:12 p.m.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:
John Smith surely uses metrics comparable to GDP to kitten the health of the game’s economy across several dimensions.

In his shoes, I probably would not choose to share them.

Publishing some specific stats might have an undesirable impact on the economy. Other stats might be too useful for gold sellers.
Publishing only a few stats tends to give undue importance to those numbers — despite any caveats given, people will will mistakenly draw conclusions that are then hard to dispel.
The data is probably available in a form useful to JS and his colleagues; it would probably take considerable work to make it publishable in a form digestible for the majority of players.

I’d love to see this sort of data, but I think JS would already be posting stuff like this if it were both easy to do and likely to be of use to the community.