So what happens when player 1 decides to play game abc and becomes fabulously wealthy. Then game xyz comes out and player 1 is automatically the best player in the game before anyone has a chance to do anything simply because player 1 has a massive bankroll coming in from abc. This is the real issue with creating a universal currency. It causes you to ruin the integrity of a stand alone game. For example, is it fair if I go run 500 bots on Diablo 2 then trade all those items off for some currency and then trade that currency for all of the best gear in World of Warcraft? (This is currently happening btw and it hurts both games)

Speaking as a professional game developer, I'd be against this idea. Adding a unified currency into any game creates a very restrictive environment and adding it to a game which has a system where those purchases create advantages for the player makes this worse. In the gaming community this is known as "Pay To Win" or P2W and is currently frowned upon. Diablo 3 gets a lot of flak for this.

I like the name hardcoin.

I don't understand the point of the game. You can't win. You either lose money or get labeled a scammer. There is no strategy whatsoever. This does not meet the requirements of being defined as a "game".

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This. The risk vs return on arbitrage right now isn't very good. That's specifically because of order execution time. If everything were as liquid as forex those of us who have traded prior would be making a couple million a day pushing coins across multiple exchanges but its just too slow right now.

I've been following them for a while. It seems to me that it's not a scam but they were very overzealous with their shipping estimates. On their site it states they are in the last phase of development. If that's the case they should need months of testing before shipping. Instead it says they'll start shipping this month...

The price is snapping back up pretty quickly.

I think it's combo of things. Here is my timeline of what happened.


1) A big player decides $265 is a good time to cash out. They decide to drop a couple thousands btc on the market all at once.

2) The epic price rise slows, then stops and stabilizes as demand can't eat through the thousands of coins as quickly as it normally can.

3) The "DDoS bandits" see that now is the right time for another DDoS snatch and grab.

4) As the DDoS brings many of the major exchanges to a near halt people begin to panic and the inevitable correction begins to take place.

5) As the correction continues the DDoS bandits realize they can create an overcorrection if they continue the attack.



And here we are.

I can't believe people are dumb enough to fall for this trick twice in two weeks.

Looks like a pretty textbook DDoS to me. I'll be ready to buy when they stop attacking the exchanges and it bottoms.

Do you happen to use the d2jsp forum. I know a guy from there who sometimes uses the tag swilson when he plays poker.

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