Monday, May 9, 2011

The Real Thing

They understood something, Blizzard still has to learn :)

The modern trader is playing the most sophisticated, dynamic, immersive game in the world. Here's how it works -- and why your job might be the next to turn into a massively multiplayer experience.

They try, in other words, to capture as much as they can of the dynamics driving our world, not for the sake of verisimilitude itself, but because it just so happens that the "realer" things are the more fun players seem to have.

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1 comment:

  1. It's easy to be a sociopath in a game, since it's just a game after all. What about when jobs look a bit too much like games?

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