{"product_id":"play-money-or-how-i-quit-my-day-job-and-made-millions-trading-virtual-loot-0465015360","title":"Play Money: Or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0465015360\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Dibbell, Julian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlay Money explores a remarkable new phenomenon that's just beginning to enter public consciousness: MMORPGs, or Massively MultiPlayer Online Role-Playing Games, in which hundreds of thousands of players operate fantasy characters in virtual environments the size of continents. With city-sized populations of nearly full-time players, these games generate their own cultures, governments, and social systems and, inevitably, their own economies, which spill over into the real world. The desire for virtual goods -- magic swords, enchanted breastplates, and special, hard-to-get elixirs -- has spawned a cottage industry of \"virtual loot farmers\": People who play the games just to obtain fantasy goods that they can sell in the real world. The best loot farmers can make between six figures a year and six figures a month.Play Money is an extended walk on the weird side: a vivid snapshot of a subculture whose denizens were once the stuff of mere sociological spectacle but now -- with computer gaming poised to eclipse all other entertainments in dollar volume, and with the lines between play and work, virtual and real increasingly blurred -- look more and more like the future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52193989853472,"sku":"NEW0465015360","price":25.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/71P8BIOSddL.jpg?v=1786896575","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/play-money-or-how-i-quit-my-day-job-and-made-millions-trading-virtual-loot-0465015360","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}