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

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Author: Julian Dibbell

ISBN-10: 0465015360

ISBN-13: 9780465015368

Category: Life Online

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...

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A wild ride to the outer limits of the virtual world, where real money meets fantasy gaming