u/Charlotte1309

Ogame/Ikariam proved the persistent-world browser formula works : log in whenever, the world ticks on, your decisions compete against real people. But it's almost always space empire or medieval city.

I can't think of one that applies the same formula to running a business.

Like building an AI company : training models, selling tokens/inference, managing compute and cash, with a shared market where players price against each other.

The pieces all exist separately :

• Tycoon games do company-building but are single-player usually
• Stock market sims have the multiplayer investing but no company to actually build underneath
• "Business MMOs" tend to be dead or basically spreadsheets with no persistent world

So the discussion : is it a design problem (a live player-driven economy is genuinely hard to balance), a theme problem (business isn't really fun), or has it just been done and I'm missing it?