Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Gold Harvesting and Real Estate Development in Virtual Worlds?

The Australian Broadcast Corp's show, Background Briefing, did an excellent piece on the virtual economies of the game world. If you ever wondering about massive gold harvesting shops in China or how to speculate on virtual real estate, give this a listen. Perhaps we ought to change our game platforms and quite our jobs?

3 comments:

Armleg said...

Have a life in another life? "Getting the nitwits to play like they should" That is like our platform. That is where the similarities end. Cash/Loot/Gold. I have to get a miners hat and get to work now.

Armleg said...

Virtual rent is a tough nut to crack every month. The frontier is a great place for us prospectors. Productive work out there in virtual goods and currency. Holy shit. This is crazy Gronk. He is making a real wage via ebay with this. Oh my goodness. My oh my says Huell Howser.

Free2130 said...

That was interesting Gronk, thanks, but I think I'll keep my day job.