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EverQuest and the UN

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-thats-just-plain-bizarre dept.

maddugan writes "NewScientiest.com has a piece on how EverQuest has spawned an economy with a per-captia income comparable to that of a small country. Mostly from profiteering on eBay. If it was indeed a country, it would rank 77th, just behind Russia." It'll be quite interesting to see what happens as MMORPGs gain popularity and absorb more and more man hours.

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  1. Invade France by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "If it was indeed a country, it would rank 77th, just behind Russia."

    Must be about time to invade France then. Seems like everyone else does it.

    1. Re:Invade France by daeley · · Score: 5, Funny

      Must be about time to invade France then.

      Yeah, but the French are saying their Maginot Firewall is completely impregnable! ;-)

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    2. Re:Invade France by nick_davison · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yeah, but the French are saying their Maginot Firewall is completely impregnable! ;-)


      As any MMPORPG player will tell you - look for the gap in the polygons and slip through it. France may appeal to the UN to get you banned from the server but all their bases are belong to you still.

  2. National Export... by tsmit · · Score: 4, Funny

    would that be geeks?

    Or maybe virgins?

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    Yes, my girlfriend is a BitchX
    1. Re:National Export... by invenustus · · Score: 5, Funny

      One summer a couple of years ago, my then-girlfriend and I were in different towns, so we spent a lot of time talking online, and eventually we got into MUDding together. We each had two characters that would go around gaining experience and wealth together, and we'd joke about sex a lot.

      One night we were going around buying equipment, and we kept kissing each other's characters. So we found a room alone, and I signed off one of my guys, and my remaining guy had a threesome with her two characters. A week later one of her characters took on both of mine.

      Boy were we a weird couple.

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  3. Re:Evercrack is addictive by PD · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can't blame Evercrack for this. People have been ruining their marriages since waaaay before online gaming. The technique of "incessant yelling and screaming" was patented at about the same time as "nagging the hell out of your husband", "sleeping with the babysitter", and "blowing the house payment on a lifetime supply of pudding."

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    If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
  4. Building an economy on the backs of parents.. by EraseEraseMe · · Score: 3, Funny

    [Month 1]
    Sure Johnnie, we can go pick up your copy of EQ after you clean your room...
    [Month 2]
    Johnnie, get off the Internet...I'm trying to phone your Aunt Bertha!
    [Month 3]
    Dinner time! Where is that blasted kid!??!
    [Month 4]
    Is that a new gameboy game? I see your paper route is finally starting to pay off..Or at least it's keeping you off that computer, we should have never got that high speed access
    [Month 5]
    What is this XBox thingie?
    [Month 6]
    Your teacher called...She asked for something called "Mythril Armor +4"..Crazy teachers
    [Month 7]
    Ok honey, this is getting a bit nuts...but we have to get you your own mailbox
    [Month 8]
    A new car? Just for US!? Thank you Johnnie! Don't worry about cleaning your room for a whole month!

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    "Anybody who tells me I can't use a program because it's not open source, go suck on rms. I'm not interested." (LT 2004)
  5. Does that mean... by burtonator · · Score: 3, Funny

    that I could defect from the US and become a citizen of Everquest?

    This seems like a good way to get around the DMCA...

    :)

  6. Wonder how Russia would do if... by BitHerder · · Score: 3, Funny

    they had resources that respawned daily, too? No more stripmining/deforestation/wildlife preservation, just set a comrade down at the ol' spawn site and wait.

    But, at least Russia doesn't have undead. Well, ok, they have muslim separatists, but nobody's perfect.

  7. Re:who cares? everquest sucks. by BasharTeg · · Score: 3, Funny

    This guy is fat. I know him. Fat.