This is a short blurb I wrote on my actual first day within Second Life, which was a few weeks ago. I wrote it while I was wandering through the Welcome world place. A part of my wishes I had never left, because then I would have been able to actually find a good number [...]

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WOW…it’s been a long time that i haven’t update my blog… so i am still playing Runescape and i have spend most of my game play time on fishing and having random chats with people, since fishing requires no mouse clicking which means players will only have to stand still and wait for fishes to [...]

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As many of you are feeling the same way I am, I felt it was appropriate to write this post. Over the last month, I have been doing interviews on my chosen MMOG (which I will keep anonymous). I have officially done 11 interviews so far. My group members have done none. They have not [...]

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The most significant obstacle of my second life field work has been the inconsistency of my four year old Dell Inspiron 1420 Laptop. Although the computer has served me well in the basic Microsoft Word world of an undergraduate anthropology student, it has not stood up to the processes of the live action MMOG. From [...]

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Just a few links to related interests. Greg Lastowka’s Home Page (http://www.chaihana.com/pers.html) Greg Lastowka teaches law at Rutgers University in New Jersey and has a number of scholarly articles that deal with legal issues in virtual worlds including digital property, virtual crime and more. He recently released a book entitled “Virtual Justice: The New Laws [...]

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Evony. Some may have heard of the free online game that is browser based and formally known as Civony. Unfortunately, many are familiar with the game for its provocative advertising or claims that the creators took a little too much of their inspiration for the game from the 90′s video game, “Civilization”, (both topics could [...]

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So my day in a life in second life actually only lasted a couple of hours. Everything started out fine, the game downloaded no problem, a quick and easy install after already having registered by selecting my username, avatar appearance, and that basic start-up information. All that easy start-up stuff went fine and then I [...]

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I began my adventure in Eve online by downloading the trial game from the web site.  It was at this moment that my first alarm bell started to go off because the game I downloaded wasn’t the correct game and required  a bunch of additional downloads to be playable but the game didn’t tell you [...]

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When I first started playing 4Story, a free MMO with the choice of using real money to pay for in-game things, I had a very difficult time. It is a pretty decent quality game, more so than I had expected from a free one, but I assume that the income from more serious players helps [...]

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