Why Online Games Are Dictatorships (InformationWeek)- About: Warcraft News

Online games like World of Warcraft and Second Life are absolute dictatorships, where the whim of the companies controlling them is law. That’s the question that I keep asking myself, whenever anyone tells me about the wonder of multiplayer online games, especially Second Life , the virtual world that is more creative playground than game. But I don’t flatter myself that I’m a citizen of Disney World. I know that when I go to Orlando, the Mouse is going to fingerprint me and search my bags , because the Fourth Amendment isn’t a “Disney value. Disney even has its own virtual currency, symbolic tokens called Disney Dollars that you can spend or exchange at any Disney park. I’m reasonably confident that if Disney refused to turn my Mickeybucks back into US Treasury Department-issue greenbacks that I could make life unpleasant for them in a court of law. read more

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