[MLUG] Re: linux game information...

[Mike Miller]

On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Vern Green wrote:

>> But your skills might not have real-world uses and you haven't really 
>> conquered the universe, just the imaginary "virtual" universe. 
>> Compare thiw with the hobby of making furniture or playing a musical 
>> instrument.
>
> I made $600.00 from playing Everquest and $300.oo from playing Ultima 
> Online.

How much were you making per hour?


> I know there are people out there paying a lot more than this for 
> characters and items in these games. Now I am not sure how lucrative the 
> market is in Eve, I never played it, but I have some friends that have.

So maybe the argument about an Eve-world $30 billion being worth a 
real-world $16,500 was based on what could be sold to other players.  If 
so, I would obviously have to retract what I wrote earlier about cost and 
value.  Of course this would lead to the obvious question of how many 
man-hours were expended to earn the $16,500.

Mike