[MUD-Dev] [News] Virtual goods--Oh, the controversy!

[Matt Mihaly]

On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, John Buehler wrote:

> Suppose I could buy a checkmate in chess.  Or extra queens.  It
> would alter the game of chess forever.  And to the minds of many
> people, very much for the worse.  Chess is obviously not a perfect
> analogue for level grind games, but for those who are
> conscientiously going throught the level grind, it's close enough.

Suppose I could buy an extra queen at chess by sitting in front of
the chess board performing a repetitive action over and over? That's
pretty close to the DIKU model.

Suppose you and I were in a bike race, and I won by hitching myself
to a car to tow me along? That describes how many people 'level up',
at least sometimes (ie big players who are their friends or
guildmates out of the game giving them items, helping them get xp,
etc). Having out-of-game friends helping is not any different from
having out-of-game money helping.

--matt
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