{"id":481,"date":"2005-12-09T12:38:43","date_gmt":"2005-12-09T17:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=481"},"modified":"2005-12-12T13:09:25","modified_gmt":"2005-12-12T18:09:25","slug":"virtual-capital-of-the-real-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=481","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Capital of the Real World *Updated*"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via a Clickable Culture entry<\/a> I just read a New York Times article carried over on the International Herald Tribune called “Boring game? Hire a player<\/em><\/a>“. For anyone who hasn’t read some of my past posts concerning virtual “gold farmers” (people who make a living playing videogames and selling the virtual items they win on sites like eBay) it’s a good read. What struck me however is that this whole set-up is ripe to be gamed by these hired players. I fully expect that we’ll soon be reading stories relating how some of them set up their own accounts on the side and funnel some of their in-game winnings to those accounts.<\/p>\n

And if you know about this activity, it’s still worth the read if only for the one quote near the end: “They all know how to play online games, but they’re not willing to do hard labor.<\/em>” Refreshing to know that Chinese and Americans aren’t really so different.<\/p>\n

{Updated – WorldChanging has added an entry on this story and the comments there are usually worth reading. Here’s the Link<\/a>.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via a Clickable Culture entry I just read a New York Times article carried over on the International Herald Tribune called “Boring game? Hire a player“. For anyone who hasn’t read some of my past posts concerning virtual “gold farmers” … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}