Zonk did an interesting interview with Ed Stark and Dave Williams, employees for an MMO developer named Red 5 (and experienced tabletop game designers). They talk about their ideas and plans to bring about the next step in MMO gaming: increased persistence in online worlds, where an objective, once completed, stays completed. Williams said, “Right [...]
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In-Game Gold Farming a $500M Industry
SpuriousLogic brings us this excerpt from a BBC report: “Prof. Heeks said very accurate figures for the size of the gold farming sector were hard to come by, but his work suggested that in 2008 it employs 400,000 people
who earn an average of $145 (ÂŁ77) per month creating a global market worth about $500m. … [...]