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

Dibbell, Julian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0465015360 ISBN 13: 9780465015368

Verlag: Basic Books, 2007

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Book by Dibbell Julian

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Filled with genuine ethical dilemmas and questions about virtual sweatshops and economic justice, Play Money probes the ever more hazy line between gameworld and society, giving a fascinating insight into the peculiar promise of the technologies that increasingly shape the culture we are building, as production melts into play." The Guardian --The Guardian

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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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• Verlag: Basic Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0465015360
• ISBN 13: 9780465015368
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336