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:: Friday, January 09, 2004 ::

Stolen (including a good chunk of text) from yesterday’s Guardian Online recommended web sites:

"Can you make a living by playing online role-playing games? Julian Dibbell hopes so. He is half-way through a year-long experiment to earn a crust by trading in the immaterial wealth of the sci-fi game Ultima Online (UO), and has launched a blog to document it. Play Money is a daily blog of "one man's attempt to get rich selling castles in the air". Dibbell has a wife and child, but in April, he will state that his primary source of income comes from "the sale of imaginary goods" - the buying and selling of virtual weapons and property created inside the UO game world. Dibbell auctions these virtual commodities, and estimates that online trading in UO amounts to $1.2m annually, but he earned just $3,131.42 last quarter."

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