> Let me get this straight-- somebody sold their
> on-line gaming character / account / whatever
> for several hundred dollars? Are you trying to
> tell me that people admired / envied /
> whatever'd this person's on-line gaming
> persona so much that they were willing to pay
> cold, hard cash (and apparently lots of it) in
> order to own that persona? As if it would be
> worth anything once there was a different
> person behind the name? I don't get it.

The long-awaited Anarchy Online was launched a few days ago, and in an interview with the game development coordinator (or whatever the title is), he said that some of the beta testers have been playing as much as 140 hours a week, and that he supposes some of these people will be playing characters to give them good stats and then sell them to people who don't have as much time to play...

Trav"140 hours a week = 20 hours a day = 4 hours of sleep a day..."holt