I'd like to make the suggestion that possibly getting in contact with any game developers, likely MMORPG game developers might be a good route to pursue if you're looking to study the effects of various inflations on the value of simulated currencies revolving around simplistic economic models.
Obviously, CKG would be a comparison, but its infancy would likely not yield enough information.
Anyone know anyone that works at Blizzard?
I don't know about Blizzard but the Valve economist guy is
somewhat busy right nowYou mean he's busy pumping litecoin with the crappiest arguments you can find even in the deep bitcointalk mud?