Reviews

Play Money: Or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot by Julian Dibbell

mjfmjfmjf's review against another edition

3.0

unimpressive nonfiction book related to gold-farming and the like. Rambly but not in a good way. Not especially interesting or informative, but still an interesting enough subject. 3 of 5.

kluwes's review against another edition

4.0

This was interesting to read in 2018. When discussing games these day people often throw around the words pay to win. Apparently it's not a new phenomenon created by evil gaming corporations to suck the most money out of it's customers. It was going on all along and they just wanted in on a piece of the action.
It was a nice snapshot from 2006 when online games were first gaining serious traction. Now they're just old hat.

marksutherland's review

4.0

Fun gonzo piece about one man's attempt to earn a living from MMOs. While it's a bit dated now (his main source of income was Ultima Online), it provides a great insight into how this business works and some of the people who were involved in it. Has a great section where he tries to hunt down an early gold farm. Very entertaining read which sheds a lot of light on the realities of the economies of these large scale games.

trevorbramble's review

3.0

Interesting, especially for anyone paying attention to Terra Nova and the evolution of MMOGs over the past ten to fifteen years or so.