July 25th, 2004, 04:45 PM
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Re: virtual property
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Originally posted by Atrocities:
Your Job,
Your Home,
Your Sanity,
Your significant other,
Seriously take some time and THINK about what you are doing.... IT JUST A GAME!!!!!!!!
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Ahhh but thats the point. Its becoming virtual reality (the definition of virtual is "almost as good as"). Its becoming more and more possible to GAIN those things thru the game. Either virtually, or actual reality.
In this case, its the idea that it is possible to make real money by selling things you achieved in a game. The fact that its only a virtual item is not important to the supply-and-demand rule. You can get a high level diablo character off of ebay if you would rather pay than make it.
Castle property on Ultima Online used to go for over $1000. With the free shards breaking out the market has dropped abit but houses still can go for hundreds.
Ive been tempted to get back into UO or Diablo and if I do then I owuld have no problem buying a few things with real money to skip the stuff Ive already done.
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