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From: Amanda Walker <amanda@alfar.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 15:33:59 -0400
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Saturday, July 12, 2003, at 05:25 PM, Castronova, Edward wrote:
> That's depressing, isn't it? No matter the discipline, everyone I
> talk to who works on games reports poo-pooing from the powers that
> be. Computer science even.
Not just the powers that be. Casual observers, even many players.
Every day you can see complaints (or even just observations) about
in-game behavior replied to with "hey, it's just a GAME". Of
course, when I say that about football or hockey, people object that
"that's different". Uhuh.
Some days, I think online games will be taken seriously when bookies
start taking bets on them, but not before.
Amanda Walker
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