Post in our forum for parents, teens - You! - at ConnectSafely.org.

Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Games' 'shadow economy'

True story: A retiring "successful Jedi knight" gets $510 in real money for his identity/game character, "a top-notch light saber, a speeder bike, a nice chunk of real estate on the planet Lok, and a bank account containing millions of Imperial credits," the Washington Post reports. We've seen stories about the darkside of videogames' not-so-virtual alternate economy (including the murder of a Chinese gamer), but we haven't seen such an interesting explanation of how it all works. It's no more complicated than what happens at eBay, but a little different: "a simple trade of cash for the product of someone's labors, except that all the goods exist only within the confines of a computer game," the Post explains, adding that more than 20 million people play these games worldwide and probably spend more than $200 million on virtual goods. Examples of game-trade sites the Post points out are GamingTreasures.com and TheMMORPGExchange.com, and GameUSD.com tracks game currency prices.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

LOTRO Gold
LOTR Gold
Lord of the Rings Online Gold

maple story mesos
maplestory mesos
maple story meso

wow gold
world of warcraft gold
wow power level
buy wow gold
runescape gold
runescape money
cheap rs gold
rs gold
EverQuest 2 gold
EverQuest 2 plat
buy eq2 gold
eq2 plat
City of Heroes Infamy
buy coh influence
City of Villains infamy
buy COV infamy
lineage 1 adena
lineage account
maple Story mesos
maplestory mesos
Maple Story meso
final fantasy xi gil
ffxi gil
buy cheap ffxi gil
dofus kamas
kamas dofus
eve online isk
eve isk
buy eve isk
LOTRO Gold
LOTR Gold
Lord of the Rings Online Gold
silkroad gold
silkroad online gold
SRO accounts

wow gold
world of warcraft gold
wow power level
buy wow gold
runescape gold
runescape money
cheap rs gold
rs gold
EverQuest 2 gold
EverQuest 2 plat
buy eq2 gold
eq2 plat
City of Heroes Infamy
buy coh influence
City of Villains infamy
buy COV infamy
lineage 1 adena
lineage account
maple Story mesos
maplestory mesos
Maple Story meso
final fantasy xi gil
ffxi gil
buy cheap ffxi gil
dofus kamas
kamas dofus
eve online isk
eve isk
buy eve isk
LOTRO Gold
LOTR Gold
Lord of the Rings Online Gold
silkroad gold
silkroad online gold
SRO accounts
q

5:54 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

In Chapter Three, I illustrate how the wow levelingthree culturalinstitutions—family, school,wow goldand religion, which world of warcraft goldhero online goldcoincide with Gateshead, Lowood, and theimvu credits representatives of Christianity in the novel—function to en-gender Jane as kal geonn expected gendered subject through discursive practices,buy wow golddiscipline and punishment,cheap wow gold and how Jane revolts against their power. In Chapter Four, I mainly focus on Jane’wow power levelings resiaoc goldstance to the temptation of wow powerleveling becoming Rochester’knight golds mistress and St.John’s nominal wife, and onlast chaos gold Jane’s quest for her wow goldidentity as her own mistress.aoc leveling In addition, the mad woman, world of warcraft gold Berth is lineage adenaread as a subjugated subject under the sexual lineage 2 adenaoppression in the Victorian patriarchal buy wow goldsociety. Under the sexual regulation,cheap wow gold Bertha isn’t ro zenyrappelz rupeepowerless woman; instead, she demonstrates her resistance to the patriarchy wow power levelingthrough violence. In the last wow powerlevelingchapter Ilord of the rings goldlotro gold summarize the main points of the precwow goldeding chapters and point out the room for further study.lotr goldmaple story mesos In this thesis, maplestory mesosmaplestory mesothe issues ofrappelz goldstar wars galaxies creditsclass and world of warcraft gold race are swg creditsshaiya goldoverlooked. According tobuy wow gold Weedon and Jordan, these three terms, gender, class, and race are all culturally constructed, not natural.cheap wow gold They aoc power levelingcontribute silkroad goldsilk road goldto difference wow powerleveling
aoc power levelingffxi giland inequality. Therefore, perfect world goldpirates of the burning Sea goldI suggest that potbs doubloonragnarok zenythe two issues in Jane Eyre can also be discussed tibia moneyvanguard goldin the light of cultural politics of class and racewow power leveling.Is this useful? sword of the new world vistales of pirates goldThe scientistseverquest platinum think so. For a start, understandingwow powerleveling the neurochemical pathways that regulaterunescape goldsocial attachments mayeverquest2 platinum help to deal with defectsrunescape money in pmmporpgeople's ability to EverQuest 2 platform relationships. All relationships,free mmorpg whether they are those of parents weq2 platith their children, spousesCity of Heroes Infamy with their partnersmmorpg forum,coh influence or workers wow goldwow power levelingwith their colleagues,rely on an ability toCity of Villains infamy create and maintain socialCOV infamy ties. Defects can be disabling,lineage 1 aden and become apparent as disorders such as lineage adenaautism and schizophrenia—and, indeed, as themmorpg openmaple Story mesosserious depression that can result from free online mmorpgmaplestory mesosrejection in love.maplestory meso Research
is also shedding lightmaple story mesosmaplestory mesosmaple story mesoon some of the more Maple Story mesoextreme forms of sexual final fantasy xi gilbehaviourAnd,ffxi gil controversially, some utopian fringe groups see such work as the doorway todofus kamas a future where love is guaranteedkamas dofus because it will be provided Age of Conan goldage of conan power levelingchemically, or even geneticallyeve online isk engineered from eve iskwarhammer goldwow goldLOTRO Goldas it were—is a fascinating one. When prairiefree fantasy mmorpg voles have sex, wow power levelingwow powerlevelingmmorpg sourceLOTR Goldtwo hormones lord of the ring goldcalled If the release silkroad goldof thesebuy silkroad goldaoc levelingwow levelingage of conan goldage of conan goldage of conan goldaoc goldaoc levelingage of conan goldage of conan goldage of conan goldage of conan power levelingage of conan power levelingage of conan power levelingage of conan power levelingage of conan power levelingage of conan power levelingaoc goldaoc power levelingaoc levelingaoc goldaoc power levelingaoc levelingaoc goldaoc power leveling
aoc levelingaoc goldaoc power levelingEverQuest platbuy eq gold
EverQuest goldeq plat
eq gold

6:53 PM  

Post a Comment

Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]

<< Home