Terra Nova makes a playful attempt at converting MMO currencies into Monopoly cash. Here’s how it’s done:
“[…]here is how I worked out the worth of Monopoly money. It’s very simple and yes it ignores the fact that since 1935 about 200 million sets have been sold, so there’s certainly a money supply out there. I simply went to the Hasbro web site and found that each set contains bills with a face value totalling $15,140, and that replacement money (which I take to be a full set) is $3.50. The rest of the figures I got from around the web.”
Certainly not the most scientific approach but the article is quite interesting, albeit short, and the notion of using a board game’s currency as a measure unit for virtual currencies has an air of beautiful irony about it.
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