Gamer Culture in Online Role-Playing Games

For most everyone who was born during the rise of the video game era, there came a point where they, like everyone must, grow up and enter the real world. For me, I have been able to delay that point even into my latter years of college! However, the time playing has definitely dialed back as you start to get older because you just can't spend the same amount of time. As many World of Warcraft players can attest to, you can log in to the game at the beginning of the day and time will pass so quickly and before you know it the day is over. There are so many things to do that you will be entertained for as long as you can play. It's a fun and entertaining game and it helps connect you to others across the world and in some cases, it can even be could for job experience... One of the best things you can tell a gamer is that "you can earn money by playing video games" or that "playing video games can help you out in the real world." Nowadays, both of t...

So there you are. You just bankrupted your cousin in Monopoly and you own half the board with hotels and matched colors all over. Your brother (or sister) is looking at your stack of money and knows that it is essentially over. You smile and think to yourself, "I have 2200 bucks right now, I got this in the bag." A few turns later, you win the game and you feel great. Now what if I told you that instead of handing that money back in, you kept it and you could exchange it for a smaller percentage of real world cash? Well tune in to the rest of this post because I'm going to be talking about how to make real world money from MMO games. In most MMO games, there are different types of virtual currency with which the users will purchase equipment, armor, skills, and other things. With some games however, there are ways to exchange your money that you earn in the game, and convert it to real world cash. For example, in Second Life , "Linden dollars can be purchase...