Friday, June 04, 2004

Death and Taxes ... and in-game taxes?

It seems that online game purveyors are actually doing some creative thinking regarding their fee structure. Linden Labs has a game called "Second Life" where you buy real estate and build homes. The key detail is they have a real estate tax and "real estate tax revenue now exceeds subscriptions." You can pay for things with in-game currency or with US dollars and there is even an on-line currency exchange. I guess I should get cracking on coming up with the perfect fee structure and starting my own gaming company.

1 Comments:

At 4:59 PM, Blogger Taylor said...

Yeah, that's cool. Did you go to the currency market that they link to. Wow. Also, the game has a scripting language so you can build things and then write programs to define their behavior.

 

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