Now this is nuts

[Furr]

"A computer game played by thousands of enthusiasts over the Internet has spawned an economy with a per-capita income comparable to that of a small country, according to new research by a US economist."

- new scientist

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ermmmm world is nuts end of

 

[Damini]

Quite a few of the ppl I used to play UO with sold their accounts on e-bay for upward of £400. Ppl regularly sell uo gold for real cash. $25 for one million uo gold is the going rate. Not my thing though - I suck far too badly to be a profitiere, and I'm comfortable enough with being a lame player to not fork out to be good.

 

[xane]

Asheron's Call, an MMOG I gave up last year, had a very active economy outside the virtual world, a high level account could easily sell for $500 and those on the PK-only server would fetch in the $1000+ range.

I listed the auctions on eBay for one guy and he was selling a regular income of Level 4+ magic items for $5-15 a go, judging by the amount he was selling I'd estimate he gets at least $100/month from it.

AC costs only $10/month to play, even maturing an account to mid-high level to sell for $100+ would rarely take more than a month, maybe even a week.

One of the reasons I gave up was because development and content was being handed to high-level players more and more, often more then half the monthly updates were out of my reach simply because I didn't play 24/7, I didn't like paying for a game that effectively funded other players in the real world.

 

[Munkey-]

i had some really rare herbs which i gave away for quite alot of gold. should've sold them as i was only on the 1 month trial account *DRAT* cant be arsed paying for an MMORPG

 

[Nozzer]

"I will sell you my +42 stick of bearding for 200 gold and your +5 ring of spell-casting."

 

[old.Kez]

Sold to the man with the +4 Beard of Wisdom.

 

[Testin da Cable]

I'll get j00 with my +5 shears of cutting heh

 

[Nozzer]

No thanks, I'm off to skin some rabbits.

 

[Perplex]

Pretty much old hat, still, surprising to see the figures.

 

[Damini]

Oh my God Perplex... what... is this rude? I need to know... who stretched you? And why?? I'm sorry if you've been asked before, but... if you are in any kind of trouble... whatever... Let us know eh? We're here to help.

 

[Testin da Cable]

matches Perp's visage almost perfectly now


/me hides

 

[old.Jas]

I knew this was going to happen someday - a game with its own real world economy, but those figures are astounding.

If Norrath was a country, it would be the 77th most wealthy in the world, just behind Russia.

EverQuest players earn an average of $3.42 for every hour spent playing the game.

 

[Wij]

I earn more than that having a p00. Don't think I'll give up the day job yet :/

 

[xane]

Manure is $15/ton so you must give out a lot of crap Wij.