Regarding article “Play for Pay”: I spent many an hour in glorious rapture playing several MMORPGs over three to five years where I made a boatload of cash selling valuable items and gold on eBay. In my estimation, I would say that I raked in a total of about $50,000 over three years of playing Ultima Online. Asheron’s Call, and Dark Age of Camelot Most of that came from selling blocks of gold coins via sales from strategically placed houses in Ultima Online. Other “opportunities” arose with loose-mouthed developers divulging certain items that were about to be “nerfed,” allowing for opportunistic gaming capitalists like myself to load up ahead of time and slowly dole out the sales for months afterward. The occasional exploit that popped up also provided more stuffins for my coin purse. It was a great ride, but life interposed in the form of kids and a loving wife, so those days are long gone. Not to mention the Chinese gold farmers that spew megaspam during WOW game sessions for pennies-an-hour wages.

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