Archive for 'Virtual Business, Finance and Economics'
Gaming Open Market to the Rescue!
Urizenus has gone to a better place, but I’m sure readers want to know what happened to all the simoleans he racked up playing trivia in those money houses! Put to sea on a burning ship like a Viking king’s gold hoard? Er, not exactly. Turns out Uri had @ 1 million simoleans on deposit [...]
Full StoryRealsimsonline Seeking New Cheats in Response to Maxis Moves against Mazing?
By The Phantom Realsimsonline, one of the famous sites targeted by Maxis as “illegal” (linking to it from in-game is regarded as a TOS violation ? see Uri’s warning letter), is best known for its service of providing a forum where sims can post their r/l bios and pictures. It is also known as a [...]
Full StoryMaxis Moves Against Mazing!
With all this apparent harassment by Maxis going on you might think that we have become completely self-absorbed. Not so! We continue to bring you important news and reflections on life in Alphaville. Today I’m happy to introduce a new reporter, who wishes to remain anonymous (for obvious reasons!). Let me just say that he [...]
Full StoryInterview with a Money Trader
In this post, I initiate what I hope to be the first of many interviews with a TSO player and money trader, who will remain anonymous for obvious reasons. Let’s just call him… “TSO Power Player” (or TPP for short). Urizenus: First question: what is your occupationTPP: TSO TPP: no joke.TPP: TSO IS my rl [...]
Full StoryCross-MMORPG Currency Exchange Opens
For a long time Squirrel and I have talked about the possibility of a currency exchange that would trade between MMORPGs, for example simoleans for Therebucks. It looks like that idea has become a reality. The Gaming Open Market has opened its doors to cross-world currency exchanges. This is such a great idea, IMHO, and [...]
Full StorySweet Crap I hate Maxis
While Camus may have been able to imagine Sisyphus happy, I just can’t bring myself to that level of desperation. Players often gripe that MMO’s require too much work inorder to see any gain. While the sentiment is true there is a fundamental flaw to the assertion. Firstly, what we’re engaging in when we skill [...]
Full StoryState of Play post 1
I was only able to attend one day of The State of Play conference but let me just say that it was one of the most interesting conferences that I’ve been to in a long long time. What I would like to do is cover events session by session, beginning in this post with the [...]
Full StoryDibbell’s chat with PayPal
In the Oct. 17 entry of his web log, Jullian Dibbell has a hilarious transcript of a phone conversation with PayPal in which he presses them to explain why virtual goods cannot be covered by their Seller Protection Policy, while say tickets to a football game are. A lot of you will have read this [...]
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