SL -> WoW
Each year I try to immerse myself in a particular technology, either as a user or as a developer. This technology has preferably nothing to do with my day-job, or at least not directly. For the past year this was Second life. Today I sold all the SL real-estate that I acquired in the past year and parked my avatar permanently in The Blarney Stone Irish Bar in Dublin.
I exchanged my linden dollars for hard cash and bought myself a copy of World of Warcraft. Lets see whether I fare better with collaboration for death & destruction than in the social engineering aspects of virtual capitalism and porn.
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Welcome to the club. I've been playing WoW for about a year now and it's extremely addictive fun.
Post your impressions, and if willing, post which Realm you're playing on.
Myself and friends from the office have just created new characters on Misha realm in preparation for Burning Crusade rollout later this month.
Most of luck and I think you'll agree that it's a great virtual world out there!
Try this one also ... www.eve-online.com.
It takes a good bit to learn and understand (much more than WoW), however the complexities of it, the economy, the corporate structure, and the human behaviors within it are more substantial than WoW in a number of ways.
Eve's server design is different than WoW. WoW has many independent worlds that are "server clusters" but only connected in limited manner. Eve, however, puts everyone within the same world.
There are rumors of the CEOs running the virtual corporations selling the game currency online via auction sites and other websites for substantial sums of real USD and Euros.
Do a search on "eve isk" to see what I mean. I wonder what occupation they list on their IRS forms ... "imaginary corporation CEO"? ;)