[MUD-Dev] Criminalize Community Volunteers?

[Koster]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mud-dev-admin at kanga.nu 
> [mailto:mud-dev-admin at kanga.nu]On Behalf Of
> Greg Underwood
> Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 11:19 PM
> To: mud-dev at kanga.nu
> Subject: Re: [MUD-Dev] Criminalize Community Volunteers?
> 
> The mistake AOL, Verant, UO, and etc. made was to attempt to 
> compensate
> their volunteers with any real-world money.  I agree with the 
> law suit...
> but I disagree that it means the end of volunteerism.  It 
> just means the
> end of partially real-world compensated volunteerism.  As 
> long as in-game
> items (powers granted, eq given, etc) have no real world 
> value, reward the
> volunteers with that. 

cf Dave Rickey's post. Equipment has real world value. Everything in a
virtual environment has real world value. Then again, everything in a real
world has real world value, it might just be miniscule.

Seriously--the fact that there are exchange rates and money valuations
attached to items in virtual spaces now means, as a player pointed out to
me, that at some point we are BOUND to see legislation regarding avatar
property rights. It certainly has an impact on the point you're making.

-Raph 



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