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A World of Warcraft World

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the something-to-think-about dept.

An anonymous reader writes "On ebay people are paying real money to buy WoW gold... while some guy in Korea murdered another guy over a rare sword that existed only in an MMORPG. This essay looks at the way more and more people are failing to draw a distinction between their real and online lives and takes it to its logical, yet utterly insane, conclusion." Amusing, and with more than a few ounces of truth.

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  1. OMG! The sky is falling! by JourneyExpertApe · · Score: 0, Troll

    Oh no! Some idiots are spending real money on fake gold! Some stupid kid killed some other kid! Why is it that whenever a couple of crazy people do something crazy, it gets portrayed in the media as an epidemic? Is this taught in Journalism school, or is it something you learn how to do on the job?

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