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Play Money: Or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot by Julian Dibbell

• Play Money: Or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot
• Julian Dibbell
• Page: 336
• Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
• ISBN: 9780465015368
• Publisher: Basic Books

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Play Money explores a remarkable new phenomenon that's just beginning to enter public consciousness: MMORPGs, or Massively MultiPlayer Online Role-Playing Games, in which hundreds of thousands of players operate fantasy characters in virtual environments the size of continents. With city-sized populations of nearly full-time players, these games generate their own cultures, governments, and social systems and, inevitably, their own economies, which spill over into the real world.The desire for virtual goods—magic swords, enchanted breastplates, and special, hard-to-get elixirs—has spawned a cottage industry of "virtual loot farmers": People who play the games just to obtain fantasy goods ...