Blizzard Denies RMT Profitability, eBaying continues

“The Spectacle steals every experience and sells it back to us, but only symbolically, so that we are never satisfied: via this mechanism we support the machine of endless consumption over and over.”
-Laura Marz

More than a medium is at stake, but the very fabric of nation and cultural formation. In the wake of Blizzcon 2007, RMT resistance continues under the guise that the sanctity of American play is under attack by Asian trends in the MMO sphere.

Counterveiling Forces
Irvine, CA- If we have indeed entered an era of mechanical repeatability, what is to be said of  players’ balancing interactions and developers’ gradual acceptance of emergent forms of cultural play? With Blizzcon just hours away, how do we account for the feedback loops in place to facilitate metaversal community interests and concerns? When gnomes and orcs of the world unite, do anti-social contracts melt into Azerothian air? Do we see a reinstatement of bilateral social relations? I don’t fully expect to answer such ambitious questions here: rather this post seeks to explore the process by which value is created in and around virtual worlds by means of economic, yet highly cultural checks and balances at the fringe of commercial norms.