Young people don't buy lottery tickets or speculate in stocks, and they start to get together to play games to pan for gold
Each generation has its own financial products.
For many post-60s and 70s, buying lottery tickets is an important way to realize their ideals. The post-80s and post-90s generations prefer to invest cash in stocks or funds. And in the post-00s generation of young people, lotteries and stocks are "in the past". The scene of their money management has become a game.
From the past few years to the past few years, young people are gathering in games to pan for gold, and young people love to spend money on "playing", on the one hand, because they have not yet mastered too much money, so they can only spend limited investment where they can see. On the other hand, through these hobby investments, many young people can indeed achieve a leap in wealth and earn a lot of benefits.
For example, in recent months, many players who have suppressed NetEase's ancient online game "Against the Cold" have made a lot of money.
"Against the Cold" is currently the most popular and appealing MMO brand on the market. With the season uniform, "Against the Cold" will revitalize the long-dormant MMO game market in 2023, with more than 100 million users of terminal and mobile games, achieving a leap in IP.
At the end of 2023, "Against the Cold", which has been popular for a year, suddenly announced a major decision - after summarizing the comprehensive operation experience of the season server, the fully upgraded "Against the Cold" 2.0 will be launched in 2024, with a series of adjustments in terms of game character development and equipment acquisition. What is especially important is that the binding currency Jiaozi has been completely abolished, and only the tradable currency copper coins have been retained.
The fact that the game's vital economic system is about to receive such a major update has aroused a lot of interest among players.
Many players believe that after the cancellation of Jiaozi, the currency in the game will become more solid, and at the same time, the fully upgraded "Against the Cold" will attract more players to join, and the price of copper coins will definitely rise when the demand increases significantly. As a result, many players bought a large amount of in-game currency when 10,000 copper coins could be sold for 1.1 or 1.2 yuan, betting on the future prosperity of the market.
At first, many people were still in a wait-and-see state of this risky behavior, thinking that it was too risky to hoard copper coins worth tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of yuan at one time. And when "Against the Cold" 2.0 was launched, these watchers began to regret it.
At the same time, because of the game's updated equipment building system and the addition of a new "Tianji suit", the consumption of copper coins in the game has increased, so the gold price in the game has begun to increase steadily, and the gold price in the game has soared directly from about 1.1 to 2.4 and 2.5 yuan, and the increase is very stable.
In just one or two days, many players have naturally doubled or tripled.
Motivated by this, many players simply started their career as a "game board brick", and they can earn thousands of dollars every month by playing games and making gold. Especially recently, in order to celebrate the launch of the new expansion pack on April 11th, the game has launched the most violent event in history, and the drop rate of props such as Orange Martial Arts Iron has been directly increased to 1000%, so that the probability of players "getting rich overnight" has been greatly increased.
In this case, it is only natural to get together to pan for gold in the game.
In fact, how to choose how to manage money is inseparable from the limitations of one's own wealth and cognition. So, what do you think about the fact that contemporary young people don't buy lottery tickets and don't speculate in stocks, and start to play games to make money?