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

Autor Julian Dibbell
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 sep 2007
Play Money explores the remarkable new phenomenon of MMORPGs, or Massively MultiPlayer Online Role-Playing Games, in which hundreds of thousands of players operate fantasy characters in virtual environments. With city-sized populations, 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 otherentertainments in dollar volume, and with the lines between play and work, virtual and real increasingly blurred-look more and more like the future.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780465015368
ISBN-10: 0465015360
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 135 x 202 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Ediția:Reprint
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Basic Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom