For the Win
by Cory Doctorow · first published 2010
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Young adult science fiction set in the present or near future. The characters are "gold farmers" extracting virtual resources from online games and selling them to richer players. Their exploitation leads them to unionize, which leads to violence and trickery. In the virtual future, you must organize to survive At any hour of the day or night, millions of people around the globe are engrossed in multiplayer online games, questing and battling to win virtual “gold,” jewels, and precious artifacts. Meanwhile, others seek to exploit this vast shadow economy, running electronic sweatshops i
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If you enjoyed this article you might like to give "For the Win" by Cory Doctorow a read, it's a pretty fun book that asks questions with regards to game economies and how they might affect the real world.
on “How I helped destroy Star Wars Galaxies” ↗Cool idea. Reminds me of the novel _For The Win_ by Cory Doctorow.
on “Show HN: QuestCompanions, temp labor for MMORPGs” ↗I haven't read it but apparently Cory Doctorow wrote a YA novel about this kind of scenario. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_the_Win
on “Economics of Minecraft” ↗