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Play money : or, How I quit my day job and made millions trading virtual loot / Julian Dibbell.
Van Pelt Library GV1469.15 .D533 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dibbell, Julian.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Video games--Social aspects.
- Video games.
- Video games--Economic aspects.
- Fantasy games--Social aspects.
- Fantasy games.
- Fantasy games--Economic aspects.
- Role playing--Social aspects.
- Role playing.
- Virtual reality--Social aspects.
- Virtual reality.
- Virtual reality--Economic aspects.
- Multi-user dungeons--Social aspects.
- Multi-user dungeons.
- Multi-user dungeons--Economic aspects.
- Internet addiction.
- Internet addiction--Economic aspects.
- Internet games.
- Social aspects.
- Genre:
- Fantasy games.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 321 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- How I quit my day job and made millions trading virtual loot
- Place of Publication:
- New York. : Basic Books, [2006]
- Summary:
- Dibbell offers an original look at a cutting-edge subject: online fantasy games with hundreds of thousands of players, and how their enthusiasts pay real-world money for fantasy goods.
- Contents:
- Part 1 The Noob
- Part 2 Tijuana
- Part 3 Stolle's Tower
- Part 4 Springtime in Luna
- Part 5 The Gold Farmers
- Part 6 A Thousand Dollars and a Dream
- Part 7 Bone Crusher, Tax Dodger, Gold Broker
- Part 8 Lost and Found
- Part 9 A New Beginning
- Part 10 On the Road
- Part 11 Judgment Day
- Part 12 Unsettling Accounts: An Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0465015352 :
- OCLC:
- 70285307
- Publisher Number:
- 9780465015351
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