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* ''Website/{{Neopets}}'' has a surprisingly deep market for a virtual pet site. Players set up shops, and the Shop Wizard can search which user shops have desired items at the lowest prices. There are also NPC-run shops, which sell a lot of standard types of goods that people want (like food and medicine), but they only offer a small assortment of items at a time and often go out of stock, and some items cannot appear in NPC shops at all. In addition, it has a trading system which allows people to trade one or more items for one or more items. Then there's also an auction system, which is the only place with no price limits, but at 20 Million between bidders (shops can only sell for prices below 1 million Neopoints, and 2 million Neopoints is the maximum you can hand over in one trade without adding items[[note]]formerly 100k for shops and 800k for trades[[/note]]).

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* ''Website/{{Neopets}}'' has a surprisingly deep market for a virtual pet site. Players set up shops, and the Shop Wizard can search which user shops have desired items at the lowest prices. There are also NPC-run shops, which sell a lot of standard types of goods that people want (like food and medicine), but they only offer a small assortment of items at a time and often go out of stock, and some items cannot appear in NPC shops at all. In addition, it has a trading system which allows people to trade one or more items for one or more items. Then there's also an auction system, which is the only place with no price limits, but at 20 Million between bidders (shops can only sell for prices below 1 million Neopoints, and 2 million Neopoints is the maximum you can hand over in one trade without adding items[[note]]formerly 100k for shops and 800k for trades[[/note]]). Neopets even has a stock market, where players can buy and sell stock in various in-universe companies, including some NPC shops - stock prices used to be influenced by the number of items players bought from certain NPC shops, but were later changed to be random.
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* ''Website/{{Neopets}}'' has a surprisingly deep market for a virtual pet site. Players set up shops, and the Shop Wizard can search what shops in the world have the lowest prices. There are also in-game shops, which house most of the items that people want most, which random events cannot provide. In addition, it has a trading system which allows people to trade one or more items for one or more items. Then there's also an auction system, which is the only place with no price limits, but at 20 Million between bidders (shops can only sell for prices below 100k neopoints, and 800k neopoints is the maximum you can attach to a trade, without adding items).

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* ''Website/{{Neopets}}'' has a surprisingly deep market for a virtual pet site. Players set up shops, and the Shop Wizard can search what which user shops in the world have desired items at the lowest prices. There are also in-game NPC-run shops, which house most sell a lot of the items standard types of goods that people want most, which random events (like food and medicine), but they only offer a small assortment of items at a time and often go out of stock, and some items cannot provide.appear in NPC shops at all. In addition, it has a trading system which allows people to trade one or more items for one or more items. Then there's also an auction system, which is the only place with no price limits, but at 20 Million between bidders (shops can only sell for prices below 100k neopoints, 1 million Neopoints, and 800k neopoints 2 million Neopoints is the maximum you can attach to a trade, hand over in one trade without adding items).items[[note]]formerly 100k for shops and 800k for trades[[/note]]).
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* ''VideoGame/Dota2'' lets players buy, sell, and trade cosmetic items on the Steam Marketplace. In the past, such items could be obtained via RandomDrops after a game, but in later updates, these items were rendered untradeable and unmarketable, so players must now spend some money to participate in the economy. Some extremely rare items, such as Pudge's Dragonclaw Hook and Ursa's Alpine Stalker set, can sell for hundreds or even thousands of dollars.
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* ''Videogame/{{Warframe}}'' does not give away premium currency through missions or daily bonus (instead of price cut coupon to purchase them). Instead, to gain Platinums (the aforementioned premium currency), players have to trade "prime" parts (usually rare variants of obtainable equipment, which took effort to assemble fully).

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* ''Videogame/{{Warframe}}'' does not give away premium currency through missions or daily bonus (instead of price cut coupon to purchase them). Instead, to gain Platinums (the aforementioned premium currency), currency) without spending real cash, players have to trade sell "prime" parts (usually rare variants of obtainable equipment, which took effort to assemble fully).fully and their availability are rotated, which means that "vaulted" parts cannot be obtained anymore except through trading) and "Ayatan Sculptures" (a rare item that can be used to boost mod cards or simply traded) to other players.
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* ''Videogame/{{Warframe}}'' does not give away premium currency through missions or daily bonus (instead of price cut coupon to purchase them). Instead, to gain Platinums (the aforementioned premium currency), players have to trade "prime" parts (usually rare variants of obtainable equipment, which took effort to assemble fully).
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** Its gotten to a point that it is often described as an economy simulator with a space ship mini-game.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Artifact}}'' allows players to buy and sell cards via the Steam Marketplace.
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** A small-scale economy exists in Pre-Searing Ascalon. It's primarily a trade in luxury goods such as dyes, which are more common in this area, and miniature pets. As Ectoplasm is not available, the rare black dye is used as a substitute currency.

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** The use of ectoplasm is necessitated by the fact that the standard gold/platinum currency has a cap of 100 platinum per character and the account-wide bank has a cap of 1000 platinum. Ectoplasm serves as an alternative liquid asset to store any cash overflow. Prices on high-end items rise due to the increased spending power of players, often leading to high-end items being worth more than the 100 platinum cap.
** Late in the game's life Zaishen Keys gained some utility as an alternate currency. Earned from daily quests and used to open a bonus chest and advance an achievement, their effective value usually runs lower than ectoplasm by a few platinum.
** A small-scale economy exists in Pre-Searing Ascalon.Ascalon, a tutorial area inaccessible from the main game. It's primarily a trade in luxury goods such as dyes, which are more common in this area, and miniature pets. As Ectoplasm is not available, the rare black dye is used as a substitute currency.

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