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The Economy of Everquest

Posted by michael on from the no-minimum-wage dept.

Gr0und_zer0 writes: " A Cal State professor is currently conducting an economic survey of Everquest players which will be used to write a paper he plans to submit to an academic journal. It will be very interesting to see how this turns out and if it actually is published. Maybe we will learn the Everquest platinum to be favorable to some of those devalued third world currencys floating around. So much for living in reality, who needs the stock market these days, I'll invest in Everquest."

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  1. Looks like it's up by Defender2000 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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    Time to celebrate.

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    1. Re:Looks like it's up by Xandu · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Banjo's up and running!

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    2. Re:Looks like it's up by Kurt+Gray · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      Time to go to bed for a week! Eeegad.

    3. Re:Looks like it's up by jfonseca · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Your ass is redundant. You're welcome Defender.

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  2. Second Post on Banjo! by yadung · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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    1. Re:Second Post on Banjo! by yadung · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Or maybe 2171124...

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  4. 1rst by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    post

  5. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp

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  7. hello, check it out by jamiemccarthy · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    just saying hello...

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  8. two things by swright · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    both of which probably arent worth wasting your reading time on but anyway...

    interesting article - but it gets me intrigued and there's no content on the site it links to (survey's offline for processing or summat...)

    Glad to see the new Slashdot up and running :) Perfectly timed with my first opportunity to meta-moderate as well, perfect!

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  10. yay for banjo by mashy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    and it even reset my moderator points back up to 5 even though I used some today! hah

  11. Banjo on my knee? by Foxxz · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I have a laptop sitting in my lap. does that mean i have a banjo on my knee?

    1. Re:Banjo on my knee? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Are you in your current location your true love, for to see?

  12. And I thought... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This was the dumbest story I'd ever read on /... This really isn't news that matters. What is he going to find? Players of Everquest are able to save more money than the average user because the need to buy soap, deodorant, clothes, and toothpaste are completely done away with. This in turn allows the player to spend an inordinate amount of time in the virtual world accumulating worthless 'wealth'.

    Yeah, that's brilliant.

    1. Re:And I thought... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Thanks for the mod. Pointing out the fact that the professor is doing something so completely ridiculous is offtopic to this conversation.

  13. OH NO! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The trolltalk SID is gone and you can't create a new one. Damn, I really liked reading that. :-)

  14. Sigs? by YIAAL · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Anybody notice there aren't any sigs appearing? My sig still shows in my settings, but it's not appearing on my old posts, and I notice nobody else has any either. Let's see if it appears on this post.

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  15. Bring back TROLLTALK by sheeplover · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Michael shut down trolltalk just like he shut the censorship site. I say all the trolltalk enthusiants mail a piece of FECES to michaels address everyday untill trolltalk comes back..

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  16. economize this by sheeplover · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  17. FNFFP by sulli · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So now you have the First Non-First First Post. Congrats. My head spins...

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  18. slashdot are hypocrites by sheeplover · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    looks like they CENSORED my post

    fucking hypocrites

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    1. Re:slashdot are hypocrites by Sircam · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Just use tags to avoid the lameness filter instead of a href. Easy.

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  19. Re:Closed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Who is moderating tonight? This was funny, not informative. Jeez...

  20. What in the blue hell? by Goldberg's+Pants · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Your comment violated the postersubj compression filter. Comment aborted

  21. Upgrade? by Xoro · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    devalued third world currencys floating around

    At least the ol' slashdot spellchecker is still working fine.

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  22. banjo woes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  23. testing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Will it display the location?

    1. Re:testing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      nope?

  24. Bug? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic
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  25. yes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    the mets are the suckiest baseball team of all time. They never fail to lose.

  26. foo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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