TheSimExchange.com predict the upcoming best selling video games
Title
the simExchange
Description
Excerpted from the website description:
- The simExchange is a simulated video game stock market where gamers can trade stock in their favorite games and consoles. The simExchange also offers a wide aggregation of articles, images,and videos for upcoming video games.
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Goal
To help gamers learn about upcoming video games and predict how well they will sell. Countless new games are on the horizon all the time and it is too time consuming to read up on all of them. The simExchange applies the "Wisdom of the Crowds" concept to upcoming video games. You can quickly identify the most anticipated upcoming games by simply checking out the most valued game stocks or the most traded game stocks.
Features
- A virtual stock market that follows real stock market mechanics: includes limit orders, shorting, margin & margin calls. The game involves no real money at all. Instead, it uses fictional currency known as DKP.
- The stock price forecasts the games lifetime worldwide unit sales. 1 DKP corresponds to 10,000 copies sold.
- AJAX trading interface: prices and other data auto-update
- Users can submit and promote the games they want listed on the simExchange for trading.
- All articles, images, and videos are submitted by the community. The simExchange features a Content Bidding system to determine the value of the content to the community.
- The news aggregator is part of the overall simExchange game; players earn DKP from submitting valuable content and posting intelligent comments.
History
The simExchange concept began on August 29, 2006. The site launched its public beta on November 9, 2006.
Joystiq featured the simExchange on December 6, 2006: http://www.joystiq.com/2006/12/06/invest-virtual-cash-in-game-sales/
Trivia
The 500 wealthiest players are known as the simExchange 500
