Gaming
Play Money: Or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot
Saturday, February 2nd, 2008By Julian Dibbell
Dibbell takes us into the computer fantasyland, introducing us to real-world game players, virtual economies and the places they interact, such as a legendary office in Tijuana where unskilled workers make $19 a day to play online, “harvesting the resources of imaginary worlds.” Dibbel disects the history of computers and games and tackles […]
The Life of the Chinese Gold Farmer
Saturday, February 2nd, 2008Link
For a long time the Donghua bosses, Fei and Bao (known even to employees as Little Bai and Brother Bao), could do no more than nurse their envy of the raiding guilds’ access to the end game. But Fan’s prowess pointed to another way of looking at it: raiding guilds weren’t the competition, they realized; […]
