What if those in game currencies actually provided you with value as you earned them in the game.
I developed a business plan to do just that a few years ago, as part of a competition, while I was finishing up my PhD in entrepreneurship.
I won 3rd place, but did not have the bandwidth at the time to pursue it further.
(Side note: George Gilder, upon reviewing the plan, remarked: “I think your proposal is ingenious and impressive.”).
In fact, the genesis of the idea behind that business plan was the direct result of me trying to solve what Gilder refers to as ‘the Bitcoin Flaw’ in his book Life after Google, about which I have written here and here.
I had incorporated Token Bonding Curves as an up-front valuation method and to provide reserve currency and instantaneous liquidity for early ‘investors’ (this is now referred to as a Bonding Curve Offering, but that term had not yet been coined when I began toying with the concept).
I still have thoughts about dusting it off, updating it, and seeing if it can take flight.