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Thanks to Chris for sending me a John Quiggin Crooked Timber post extending the Economist’s analysis of MMOG (EverQuest) economic and legal presence in the real world (Terra).

A mesmerising customer service response to player unrest on one of the biggest MMOGs becomes an exercise in communicating what the designers intended and why customers can’t always get what they want even if they will get what they need (kindly archived at Cesspit). Cut to a discussion on who is the kind of player who really wants to know who and what is behind the curtain?

An Ultima Online farmer leaves a farewell message, and retires and eBays his farm bots:

Whoah!