Turns out that my employer (a business school that some may know) has an electronic content thing, and they heard about MMOGs/VWs. The story is here, and has some interesting comments from Cory, Tim, Dmitri and Ted (making this article a Terra Nova quintuple play) and some stuff from me that I don't remember saying but probably did. I sound like an idiot, so it must be me. (For the record, I've never bought anything in the RMT market, but I was indicating that rich people from the First World--ie people like me--are the kind of people who engage in RMT, and for good reason).
Oh, also has some projections about the size of the secondary market which are interesting, but almost certainly wrong.
My trackback was refused, so here's a related entry at Clickable Culture: "Game Grind Just Another Job."
Posted by: Tony Walsh | Oct 19, 2005 at 20:37
Apologies for the multiple Tracks. I had similar problems to Tony's. My manipulations on my site apparently created a second Trackback.
Posted by: Ian | Oct 20, 2005 at 10:37