Honest reply deserves an honest reply.

So the core idea here, game money stays game money and real rewards come from actual yield sources instead of printing tokens. Yeah. I've gone back and forth on something similar for a while now. It's probably the cleanest version of this argument I've seen someone lay out.

Here's where I always get stuck though. The second anything in the game has real tradeable value, players WILL find ways to extract. Doesn't matter how clever the separation is. You wall off the currency? Cool, now the items become the extraction vector. People farm items, flip them, and you end up in the same place just with extra steps. I watched this happen in real time with equipment drops. Took me way too long to see it coming honestly.

I think you're directionally right though. The economy has to work as a game economy first. Full stop. Rewards should come from revenue the game actually generates. Not from inflating some token supply and praying that buy pressure holds. We've all seen how that movie ends.

HBD savings, yeah. Creative for sure. But the legal side of that is a nightmare and the yields are... not exactly exciting. Nobody's sticking around for 20% APR on HBD when they could just go play something else. The principle is solid though. Fund rewards from real returns, not the money printer. That part I agree with completely.

And honestly? I wish more people thought about it the way you do. Not as an investment vehicle. Just a game that happens to have real value flowing through it. That framing matters more than people realize.

Appreciate the thoughtful comment. Really do.