Second Life economy

I had not logged in to Second Life in about six months or so and I recently came back to see what was going on. I ended up buying new land near the waterfront, building a home on it, being seduced by the recently opened "snowy sims" a week later, buying snowy land, building another house there and selling the initial waterfront land.

The interesting aspect of all this activity is that:

• Given the accumulation of a weekly stipend over six months,
• Given that I sold the land I bought for a 20% markup, and
• Given that the currency exchange rate for Lindens has been skyrocketing,

it looks as if I have made a real world profit from playing the game.

I did not intend to join this game with an eye toward real world profiteering, but it has happened that way. Well, at least until this point. As quarterly fees and monthly land-use fees kick in, I will probably break even within the next three months or so unless I engage in additional commercial / financial operations.

| New World Notes |
| Second Edition |
| "The Philosophy of Second Life: The Bodega Dialogues" |
| USA Today on Second Life |