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Title: Scientific American: RMT as a beneficial, growing employer Post by: UnSub on January 17, 2010, 10:01:32 PM Okay, that's not really what the article is about - it's a pretty good overview of the history of RMT / external microtrans in MMOs - but it is part of its conclusions. (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=real-money-from-virtual-worlds)
RMT companies (according to the article) pay as well if not better than some other menial jobs and if the option is gold farming or unemployment, people choose gold farming. Add a swelling pool from which to employ plus increases in demand for RMT options and it certainly appears that RMT is a growth industry that (again, according to the article) might not be all bad although ethically questionable. Title: Re: Scientific American: RMT as a beneficial, growing employer Post by: rattran on January 17, 2010, 10:12:15 PM I hear lots of otherwise unemployed people sell crack on street corners and make good money.
Title: Re: Scientific American: RMT as a beneficial, growing employer Post by: Bzalthek on January 17, 2010, 10:13:56 PM I'll suck your dick for a quarter!
Title: Re: Scientific American: RMT as a beneficial, growing employer Post by: Teleku on January 17, 2010, 10:18:39 PM Are we really comparing being payed to play a video game to selling crack? :oh_i_see:
Title: Re: Scientific American: RMT as a beneficial, growing employer Post by: Ratman_tf on January 17, 2010, 10:48:15 PM (http://www.angelfire.com/ak4/ratman/i-like-where-this-thread-is-going-8.jpg)
Better comparison is telemarketing, IMO. Title: Re: Scientific American: RMT as a beneficial, growing employer Post by: schild on January 17, 2010, 10:52:06 PM I'll suck your dick for a quarter! I only have cheeseburgers.Title: Re: Scientific American: RMT as a beneficial, growing employer Post by: Ubvman on January 17, 2010, 11:01:56 PM If you believe Blizzard (http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/basics/antigold.html), a big chunk of RMT gold moving around now is actually gold stolen from hacked accounts; only some from the stereotypical chinese nerd farming CASH_MOB_004 from a basement sweatshop in Shenzhen.
So yeah, theres good money burglarizing and/or fencing stolen goods compared to being unemployed. Title: Re: Scientific American: RMT as a beneficial, growing employer Post by: Bzalthek on January 17, 2010, 11:16:43 PM I'll suck your dick for a quarter! I only have cheeseburgers.Very well, I will suck your cheeseburger for a quarter. I'm Equal Opportunity and all that. Title: Re: Scientific American: RMT as a beneficial, growing employer Post by: Rendakor on January 17, 2010, 11:18:46 PM Make sure not to bite. No one likes a biter.
Title: Re: Scientific American: RMT as a beneficial, growing employer Post by: Grimwell on January 20, 2010, 09:35:22 AM What's really interesting is that Scientific American is doing this article. It's mainstream.
Title: Re: Scientific American: RMT as a beneficial, growing employer Post by: CharlieMopps on January 20, 2010, 12:58:40 PM What's really interesting is that Scientific American is doing this article. It's mainstream. Yea, geese, guess you were right all along... damn :why_so_serious: Title: Re: Scientific American: RMT as a beneficial, growing employer Post by: UnSub on January 20, 2010, 05:49:00 PM What's really interesting is that Scientific American is doing this article. It's mainstream. Virtual economies also popped up in a pretty mainstream advertising-oriented website (http://www.warc.com/ArticleCenter/Default.asp?CType=A&AID=WORDSEARCH90974&Tab=A). It's an area that is attracting growing attention. |