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Forbes - Making Real Money In Virtual Worlds: As the popularity and sophistication of MMORPGs has skyrocketed, enterprising gamers have found ways to make real money playing them--to the point where experts say that it has become common to run across gamers who make their entire income with virtual jobs. "It's eminently doable," says Edward Castronova, an associate professor at Indiana University and author of Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games.
There is a great Miami New Times article about Entropia Universe, Club Neverdie, VR world economy&business, and the personal history of CND's owner. Jacobs - known as "NeverDie" in the game - is doing more than getting hitched inside a computer landscape. He's getting married inside his own virtual nightclub, Club NeverDie, which is located on an asteroid in Entropia Universe for which Jacobs paid a reported $100,000 in October. Yes, that's real U.S. currency for a space rock that exists only in a videogame... He's averaging 100,000 PED, or about $10,000, in monthly revenue. In a year, he says, his investment will have paid for itself. It's conceivable, Jacobs claims, that he could one day be virtual reality's first millionaire.
El Pais Semanal, August 6, 2006 - Mi otra vida virtual - Article on Second Life on the weekly magazine of the leading Spanish daily newspaper El Pais.
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