Could be way worse . WG NA could decide to imitate WG EU , which shaft its players all the time and think the unwashed masses should roll in happiness just because the game is in EU . <| sep |> In short , the whole demonetization thing is bad thing for the economy in multiple ways 1 . The small daytoday exchanges have decreased hugely . The electronic exchanges cards , paytm , etc . cannot compensate for those . All those apps are for smartphones , and I don ' t see their usage extending to people with feature phones leave aside those not having mobile phones . 2 . The whole thrust has largely been diverted from working and earning money in productive or may be not so productive , depending on how you look at it ways to a single point focus of managing cash if you have it , and even if you don ' t have it . This is totally an unproductive exercise and does not contribute to the economic growth . The lesser this stays , lesser would be the damage . 3 . The momentum of companies ' earnings will suffer a lot for a majority of companies at least for this and next quarter , since cash would come over this period and even then it is difficult to overcome to inertia back to normalcy . 4 . The ' trust ' of foreign investment firms would suffer hugely , and their long term investments into the country would take a dive . Previously , we were among the few islands of growth in the world . But with this , we have done a selfinflicted wound over an exercise which was totally unnecessary . People could have forgiven downturns because of some structural reason or sentiment , etc . but making the basic economic transaction a big hassle while everything else was getting better or stable , is a big negative . 5 . People would be thinking about how to store money in say ' gold ' or ' usd ', etc . Overall , next 2 quarters will be in recession , in most likelihood and then economy may pick up slowly . Who knows !