The Virtual Gold Rush

6d6hucc3j1 · Wysłany: Czw 11:22, 17 Mar 2011 Temat postu: The Virtual Gold Rush

As a kid you might have wished "if only you could make money playing video games." Well now you can,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], if you don't mind violating the End User License Agreement of the game's manufacturer.
According to Synthetic Worlds author Edward Castronova, black market [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] from some Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games is valued higher on eBay than the Japanese yen and the currencies of third world countries.
So,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], neither gold farming startup companies nor individual gamers are willing to let the End User License Agreement stop them from cashing in.
You see your character might desire a magical sword,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but not have enough gold to buy it. That's where the black market comes in. You simply go to eBay, or any of a number of gold selling websites, and purchase with real money the play money that you need. As you can surmise,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], this happens a lot.
The process of gathering game gold to sell for real money even has a name - "gold farming". And with a 100 million plus players globally that means that game gold is pretty valuable.
Thus your character might have their own castle, and be in a warrior guild with hundreds of other players,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and team up together for epic quests to travel into dangerous dungeons and kill powerful beasts like dragons and demons.