MMORPG Economies Explored in Depth

Obscure Economist writes "The Social Science Research Network (SSRN, http://www.ssrn.com) has just posted a free download of "On Virtual Economies," a new broad-focused study of the market for MMORPGs. Think of it as a less descriptive, but more predictive, follow-up to my paper on the EverQuest economy of last spring. The link, for those interested: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id =338500. Comments and criticism appreciated. Edward Castronova, Associate Professor of Economics, Cal State Fullerton"

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MMORPGH realties

[Anonymous Coward]

MMORPHG's are excellent devices to model real world problems around. Here at the Fui Institute in Japan, we have used several MMORPGH's worldwide to map several social issues.

For example, the interaction between human beings are very nicely mapped in a MMORPGH. It's true, the newbies usually play the games as a game, but after a while they fall into place and build a sense of reality. When this happens, they try to model the MMORPGH based on their real world. This is very interesting no?

Unlike the Sims, MMORPGH's actually put you in the place of the character, thus you are more attacched to your character than with Sims. You tend to be a lot more emotional and a lot more envolved. We have done several research among Sims vs MMORPGH. It would be interesting when the new Sims MMORPGH game comes out.

Thank you.

Dr. Thakiro Nagoobalhu.

Re:MMORPGH realties

[netsharc]

Heh, a troll. I bet he's gonna get modded to interesting as well.. Fui Insitute? A Japanese named Nagoobalhu? There's no L in (native) Japanese, idiot.