Earlier this year, an American academic reached the conclusion that a virtual kingdom had entered the world economy as the 77th richest country in the world. Norrath, the setting for the online game Everquest, sat between in Russia and Bulgaria in the GDP stakes.
The online world of MMRPGs – Massively Multiplayer Roleplaying Games – was just one of the topics at the recent ‘b.playful’ forum, the brainchild of Katz Kiely’s b.tv Forum of Creative Convergence.
