/biz/ - Business & Finance

Also besides dota being the best fucking game to ever grace the face of this god forsaken planet, let me shill you these two extremely based /biz/ games again:

Capitalism Lab's, pictured to the left. This game is amazing, you are the CEO of a corporation set in a sim city like simulation. Your goal is simply to collect as much money as possible. Possible methods of enrichment include raw resource wholesale, Factory capitalist producer, large scale retail, any combination of the above to specialize in hundreds of products supply chain, research and development, real estate, media, software or internet services, local government, and of course equity trading. This is a game they use to teach MBA's at Princeton. If you like supply chains, business valuation, product development, or any of the billion things that go into making a business this game is fun as fuck. My personal favorite strategy is the "Pump and Dump", you have your parent create a subsidiary, and then create a second subsidiary for the first one. You give all your cash to the first subsidary, then you take out a loan on all that cash and do a capital injection into the second company. Then you IPO both of them, the first company will be valued very highly because of the startup capital and loan, the second one will be valued extremely small because capital injections don't count towards valuation. You buy up all the equity of the second company and merge gaining all their capital, then you sell all your shares in the first subsidiary letting the PC eat the losses on the bank loan default. Ta-da you now have a little more then doubled your money.

The second game is wallstreet raider. If you've ever dreamed of financing and trading your way from a fledgling internet services company into a trillion dollar insurance corporation this game can't be beat. This game is so in depth it is hard to explain, and I'm out of typing space, but basically you buy credit default swaps until you crash the economy. Fun

I'm playing this game right now. It's all about product, sales, development, and corporate stuff. If your not a brainlet and setup some sort of electronics supply chain company from raw to store front, it costs you like 5c to produce $100 worth of goods. You setup your factories in the most impoverished areas and sell to the first world. Takes about 2 braincells and 10 minutes of hardcore micro management to complete. After that 10 minutes the game bassically turns into shoving bundles of money into equity for mergers, because the computer will always beat you at micro managing and price wars. Buy some real estate in that third world country and stuff it with offices until its first world, highest returning asset in the game.

I know video games aren't like real life at all, but its so fuckin funny to me. The PC is militant about not selling its equity to you so its literally all about shoving increasingly ridiculous offers in their face that they would be stupid not to take, and then eventually it all inflates away. If you do this right and invest quantitatively you will never lose the game and eventually own everything. This is a game that Princeton used in the early 2000's to teach buisness dev classes with too.

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I'm a finance nerd and have probably the two most fun games to play if you actually like /biz/ games

The first is Capitalism labs, this is bassically an in-depth cashflow and buisness model simulator and is so fucking fun. The game has simcity 2k style graphics because once you get the hang of it you might as well be playing the game entirely on a realtime spreadsheet. Its all about market share, product quality, cash flow, intrest, debt, private equity, and making a monopoly. Ever wanted to live out your fantasy of owning cigarette sweatshops in china and importing them into california under a luxury brand name for huge profits? Now you can. Ever wanted to commit fraud by opening up 20 subsidarys with increasingly leveraged loans so you can liquidate all the cash from those fradulent loans and then leave some schmuck holding 100% equity in the now deeply indebted fradulent parent company? Now you can.

The second is Wallstreet raider, a full market simulator that allows you to try your luck and release your inner gordan gecko onto a highly realistic market setting. You can choose to make your money in anyway you want, buy up underperforming companies and turn them around for a nice profit, become a bank and arbitage corporate or private debt, liquidate companies for profit, sell subprime mortages, deal in commodities and futures, in game forex, deal solely in insurance, partake in credit default swaps, the game even has options to bribe politician's and get rich through political corruption if you wish. The most intense market simulator I have ever played and is well worth a try if you fancy yourself a market making master.

Who has played this game? I need help with figuring out mergers vs. Subsidiary strats. I dont think theres any point after 5+ years in game to doing a merger unless P/E drops below 0 which never fucking happens

pic related is about the most accurate a game has been so far