Re: [MLUG] Re: linux game information...

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Vern Green wrote:

> > How much were you making per hour?
>
> Not nearly enough to make a career out of it, but I made enough to pay 
> for my initial expenditure of the game and the monthly fees and had a 
> nice tidy little sum to take my wife out to dinner on.
>
> I was a casual player though, there are literally companies out there 
> now that have made it their business to have banks of people in India 
> and Korea play characters 24 hours per day and then sell those 
> characters to people who do not want to start from the beginning. In the 
> first Everquest, it took many hours of game time playing to get to a 
> point where you could play with people who were at the upper levels. 
> Since there were very few people playing at those lower levels anymore, 
> most people starting out had these companies level their characters for 
> them and then they would start playing at a higher level.
>
> http://eqpowerlevel.com/
>
> This company levels from level 1 - 75 for $853, it takes them 30 days to 
> do it, but they are not doing one character at a time either.


Very interesting, Vern.  That makes perfect sense.  It's amazing how the 
internet makes it possible for anyone in the world to do work for anyone 
else as long as it is computer software-related work.

Mike

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