> > 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?
>
> 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

Having people actually play the characters for soooo many hours, to make money, seems a waste of time. Why don't the programers simply write characters with desired attributes and sell them? I can envision a day where more and more people pay gaming companies real money for play money, to purchase electronic ice cream, etcetra.

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