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December 9, 2005

You buy gold?

It seems some online game players are outsourcing the boring gold gathering and chicken slaying which is a required part of starting practically any multi-player game to anonymous Chinese workers in game factories. Then once they've leveled up to the point where they can do the fun stuff, like killing giant monsters and such, they take over. Weird.

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On December 9, 2005 1:57 PM, Ianiv Schweber said:

When I read the article it immediately reminded me of Cory Doctorow's "Anda's Game".
In the story people run sweatshops to make money from in-game items that could be sold for real cash.

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On December 11, 2005 12:59 PM, Warren Frey said:

I haven't read that, though I assume the title is designed to annoy Orson Scott Card. :) I have read "Down and Out" and "Eastern Standard Tribe," but I haven't tackled his new one yet.


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On December 12, 2005 1:04 PM, Ianiv Schweber said:

Yes, the name is supposed to remind you of Ender's Game. He says:
It's the first in a series of stories I'm writing that riff on the titles of famous SF novels and stories (this one is a play on Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Game" -- also coming are "I, Robot," "The Man Who Sold the Moon," "Jeffty is Five," and "True Names" -- this last with Ben Rosenbaum). This started as a response to Ray Bradbury's assertion that Michael Moore was a "thief" and a "horrible human being" for using the word "Fahrenheit" in the title of his last movie -- but now I'm just finding it fun to deconstruct the stories of the writers who came before me.

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