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Filtering by: Subject Capital movement -- Simulation games Date 2006 Degree Name Honors Bachelor of Science (H.B.S.)

Das virtual capital : an economic perspective on playing online games : Fantastic scarcity and Real-market trades

Creator:

Dodson, Eric

Abstract:

Massively multiplayer role-playing games (MMORPG) are becoming a popular leisure activity world-wide. MMORPG players have created a new kind of market, one for virtual possessions. Some players will buy and sell virtual goods for real-world money. Many game developers oppose this real-market trade because it threatens the control of their...

Resource Type:

Honors College Thesis

Full Text:

returns of player time are expressed as increases to in-game capital. The exact breakdown of the returns