Ever Quest
Virtual World, multi-player online role-playing
- games (MMO) - launched in 1997, now owned by Sony Online Entertainment
- Linden Lab
- When you think about people paying real cash for something you cannot even touch, smell, taste -- tough!
- Capitalism incentivizes people to build, excel, to do something skilled, to strive to sort of succeed.
--> if build in communism -- would not be interesting game play --> bcos in perfect commmunism, everybody has the same, everybody's happy --> no game
- RMT - real money trade
- avatar - Anshe Chung (of a German School teacher), a virtual land speculator
- games (MMO) - launched in 1997, now owned by Sony Online Entertainment
- Linden Lab
- When you think about people paying real cash for something you cannot even touch, smell, taste -- tough!
- Capitalism incentivizes people to build, excel, to do something skilled, to strive to sort of succeed.
--> if build in communism -- would not be interesting game play --> bcos in perfect commmunism, everybody has the same, everybody's happy --> no game
- RMT - real money trade
- avatar - Anshe Chung (of a German School teacher), a virtual land speculator