Play Money: Or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot (Gebundene Ausgabe) von Julian Dibbell Synopsis: This book talks about a wild ride to the outer limits of the virtual world, where real money meets fantasy gaming. "Play Money" explores a remarkable new phenomenon that's just beginning to enter public consciousness: MMPORGs, 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 that they can sell in the real world. The best loot farmers can make between six figures a year and six figures a month. "Play Money" is an extended walk on the weird side: a vivid snapshot of a subculture whose denizens were once the stuff of mere sociological spectacle, but now - with computer gaming poised to eclipse all other entertainments in dollar volume, and with the lines between play and work, virtual and real increasingly blurred - look more and more like the future. Rezensionen ansehen...   Angebote zu  Play ,  Money ,  Quit  ab 1 Euro! Siehe auch folgende Artikel: Synthetic Worlds. The Business and Culture of Online Games von Edward Castronova Second Life. The Official Guide von Michael Rymaszewski Play Between Worlds: Exploring Online Game Culture. Exploring Online Game Culture von T. L. Taylor Parallel Realitäten. Designkritische Texte Wilhelm Braun-Feldweg Förderpreis von Florian A. Schmidt Mehr zu  Business,  Business & Investing,  E-commerce,  Investing,  Popular Economics,  Video Games,  Video & Electronic Games Home ...,    Verwandte produkte ...,    Begleitseite ... Herausgeber dieser Seite ist DomainLoc.com GmbH - Partner von Amazon.de Copyright © DomainLoc.com GmbH (Impressum)