Video games are incredible for the kinds of mini experiments and insights on human nature they throw up.

Player driven economies are a case in point. Everyone joins the game at the same level, and same handicap. Yet you end up with the same power law dynamics of wealth concentration.

Gaming is also one industry that does real research on online toxicity, and one of the more motivated sectors to finding a way to balance it out.

This is something that makes the frequency of cooperation in Arc Raiders somewhat anomalous.