Valve’s economist may become Greece’s new Finance Minister - Polidicks

[quote]Almost three years ago Valve hired an economist to analyse and direct the Steam Market. Yanis Varoufakis was going to chart the sale of Dota 2’s vanity items, the purchase of Counter-Strike weapon skins, and try to understand why the hell everyone was buying hats. Varoufakis is now tipped to become Greece’s new finance minister. All fear the coming hat event horizon. This weekend saw Greece vote in Syriza, an anti-austerity party, who plan to end government cuts and Greece’s financial crisis by investing in growing the Greek economy. Varoufakis has been named as the most likely candidate to become Greece’s finance minister. In 2012, Gabe Newell invited Varoufakis to visit Valve to help them link Steam’s virtual economies together. Newell had been reading Varoufakis’ blog and realised that creating a shared currency between real money and the steam wallet was similar to Greece and Germany’s problems with the Euro.[/quote] [url]http://www.pcgamesn.com/valve-s-economist-may-become-greece-s-new-finance-minister-fear-the-hat-event-horizon[/url] [video=youtube;FJP1Ysx47fo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJP1Ysx47fo[/video]

Going to help create the worlds first hat based economy

Looks like google needs to catch up

I should probably start stockpiling a diverse selection of hats.

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They impose a $1 = 1€ and crash what's left of the greek economy

Interesting, hope it turn out for the better, the dude really looks chilled out.

Valve taking over Greece's government confirmed.

Althrough I have no idea what the fuck it is going on, I just know euro crashed hard because of greece or something?

Now gabe will own a country. Rename Greece to Newellia.

Didn't this guy at one point say that TF2's economy was bigger and/or more valuable than that of Greece at one point in one of his posts? Hell, he may be stepping down from the virtual hat economy to a smaller one if he did say that. :v:

[QUOTE=BlindSniper17;47016428]Dodnt this guy at one point say that TF2's economy was bigger and/or more valuable than that of Greece at one point in one of his posts? Hell, he may be stepping down from the virtual hat economy to a smaller one if he did say that. :v:[/QUOTE] I seriously doubt that, but if it's true.. lol

Valve world domination confirmed.

[QUOTE=Fourier;47016430]I seriously doubt that, but if it's true.. lol[/QUOTE] Well, greece's population is only 11 million, smaller even than Canada, but TF's peak players was under 120k so I'm not sure about that. League of legends has had over 27 million active daily players though, so I imagine dota at least is somewhere near there now.

[QUOTE=AnnieOakley;47016402]Now gabe will own a country. Rename Greece to Newellia.[/QUOTE] Newellia military forces are issued Gaben-approved Combat Knives with his face engraved on them.

Come on use a bit of common sense. Even if Greece is in a shitty position, there's no way a microtransaction videogame market will be larger than than the economy of Greece. Their GDP is around 250 billion USD.

Can't tell if this is a promotion or not.

[QUOTE=AnnieOakley;47016402]Now gabe will own a country. Rename Greece to Newellia.[/QUOTE] The economy should be based off a new group of policies named Gabenomics

Parthenon | Asiimov? :v:

[QUOTE=BlindSniper17;47016428]Didn't this guy at one point say that TF2's economy was bigger and/or more valuable than that of Greece at one point in one of his posts? Hell, he may be stepping down from the virtual hat economy to a smaller one if he did say that. :v:[/QUOTE] I doubt it's more valuable. Maybe he said more viable. Still difficult to prove but less so this is amazing though. Like, that what the hell kind of amazing