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Amazingly, You Cannot Actually Make Millions From Tiny Classified Ads


Regarding the PE story I mentioned earlier, almost as earthshakingly, Terra Nova finally finds an RMT media story they didn’t like.

This is the kind of story that we love here at Terra Nova, since it involves nifty issues about virtual worlds, the social fiction of money, and all sorts of other interesting questions. But I don\’e2\’80\’99t love this story. I think it\’e2\’80\’99s basically bogus. In fact it\’e2\’80\’99s worse than that. This story has finally convinced me that MindArk is fantastic at generating public relations stories that credulous media sources pick up without questioning, but which, if investigated for even a moment, make you shake your head in wonder.

Bucky Carooe back in the glory days of waterthread.org had Mindark figured out years ago, but still, it’s nice to see some credulity from a site often sourced as the primary academic journal dealing with MMOs.

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  1. #1 by Freakazoid on May 3rd, 2006

    “primary academic journal” for MMOs? Since when? And why does that make me feel like I could start a blog and become an academic journal for MMOs?

  2. #2 by Psychochild on May 3rd, 2006

    Terra Nova does have some of the most notable names doing academic research into online games posting there. The blog isn’t their only work, they also publish papers (most of which are linked from the names on the right-hand side). They even have the occasional industry person (although they tend to stop posting since they have, you know, real work to do). Sure, this may not be a supreme honor, but it is something to note.

  3. #3 by bloo on May 5th, 2006

    What does RMT stand for?

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