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Author: Julian Dibbell
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0465015352

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

Play Money explores a remarkable new phenomenon that's just beginning to enter public consciousness: MMORPGs, or Massively MultiPlayer Online Role-Playing Games, in which hundreds of thousands of players operate fantasy characters in virtual environments the size of continents. Get Play Money computer books for free.
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 Check Play Money our best computer books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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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 best

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