Ugh, Steve, are you voting that we discuss virtual reality instead of
Oksapmin math? Majority
rules! See xmca where the voting booth is open! :-)
mike
On 3/13/06, Steve Gabosch <sgabosch@comcast.net> wrote:
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> Mike referred me to an interesting article that discusses the the
> economics of mulitplayer online role-playing gaming. This article by
> Julian Dibbell was published in Wired in Jan 2003.
> http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.01/gaming.html
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> A more thorough and much clearer article on the subject written by
> Clive Thompson is online at walrusmagazine.com. I recommend this
> article as a very readable and thoughtful introduction to this subject.
> http://www.walrusmagazine.com/article.pl?sid=04/05/06/1929205
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> The economics professor Edward Castronova wrote an internet article
> on the economics of the virtual worlds found in these internet games
> in December 2001 that, according to Thompson, soon topped the charts
> in internet downloads. This was the first serious analysis of this
> phenomena and it apparently rocked the internet gaming community.
> http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=294828
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> Here is another article by Castronova.
> http://www.gamestudies.org/0302/castronova/
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> This wikipedia entry has other good links, including Castronova's website.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Castronova
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> Amazon has an ad for Castronova's recent book "Synthetic Culture: The
> Business and Culture of Online Games."
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0226096262/002-0533582-9222418
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> - Steve
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