e/Popex

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has gloss	eng: Popex was a free Internet-based game in which players, using virtual money, bought "shares" of musicians and bands, similar to a stock market. Upon signing up players were given 5,000 popex pounds to start trading on the stock market. As demand for bands rose and fell, based on their popularity and chart performance, so did their price. The real-time price fluctuations of the artists were shown in the control panel and also by numerous charts on the individual artists pages. 24hr summaries of the biggest risers and fallers were shown on the (largely redundant but highly popular) shakers and movers (S&M) chart. Each week "dividends" were paid out based on real world performance of those musicians and bands. Once a punter had earned 1 million popex pounds, their disposable wealth was reduced to 10,000 pounds and rewarded with a shiny silver gong to represent a million in the bank.
lexicalization	eng: Popex
instance of	e/Business simulation game