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Where does the money come from?
I was digging through MoG weekly recaps and noticed something interesting.
Aug 20: 56,047 Keys burnt β $39,233 prize pool
Sep 3: 80,735 Keys burnt β $56,515 prize pool
Sep 17: 26,161 Keys burnt β $18,313 prize pool
Across all 3 weeks, the prize pool works out to almost exactly $0.70 per Key burnt.
With Arcade Keys costing $1 each, that's a pretty interesting ratio.
Players spend money to enter the maze, and a big chunk of that spending goes back into the prize pool they're competing for.
More Keys burnt = more money flowing into the pool, assuming that same ratio holds.
And that's what makes MoG economy interesting to me.