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Beyond Play: Artificial Worlds and Gaming Capital The objective of this study is to examine the extent to which RMT and inherent forms of emergent play can resist classification as “work” and to what extent they must to allow developers to maintain subscriptions. How desirable is trading in and around games, from the gamers’ and from the developers’ perspectives? How does the industry address itself to this budding secondary market? What are its costs and its benefits?  Gray Market Analysis: Real-Money Trade The objective of this study is to examine how real-money trade (RMT) affects online synthetic world economies-- specifically, how market structures and potential for profitability compare between traditional massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) such as Blizzard's World of Warcraft and Sony Online Entertainment’s Everquest II, and "metaverses" such as Linden Lab's Second Life. |
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