
EVE Online Copied NASDAQ So Well It Broke Its Own Game
Published: September 9, 2026
Duration: 13:57
Ever heard of a video game that accidentally built a better stock market than Wall Street? EVE Online copied NASDAQ's trading system so perfectly that players started acting like actual Wall Street traders, creating an economy so efficient it broke the fun out of their own game. Emma Reid breaks down how virtual spaceships became a masterclass in market psychology.
🎯 What You'll Learn:
• How EVE's 500,000 daily transactions mirror real financial markets better than most economics textbooks
• Why the $300,000 "Bloodbath of B-R5RB" battle taught us more about market crashes than 2008 did
• The surprising reason EVE hired a real economist and why their...