![]() ![]() ![]() Gold farming is a billion-dollar industry, but not one that is actually facilitated by MMORPGs, so the transactions are typically underhanded. On par with World of Warcraft, the key feature of T’Rain is that it caters to ‘gold farmers’ – players with a lot of time on their hands who play primarily to acquire large amounts of virtual gold in the game world, which they then sell to other players for real money. Once an army deserter, later a marijuana smuggler, Richard is the family’s black sheep but he went straight and is now the creator and billionaire CEO of a hugely successful massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) called T’Rain (‘terrain’). It starts out with Richard Forthrast attending the annual family re-u (reunion) out on a farm in Idaho. Russian mafia, Chinese hackers, Islamic jihadists, secret agents, explosions, car crashes, shootouts, sword and sorcery battles, kidnapping, bombings, murders, acts of (a) god – all these things and a ton of others are packed into Neal Stephenson’s latest novel Reamde, although at a hefty 1044 pages, it’s not like there’s any shortage of space. Source: Review copy from publisher via Penguin Books South Africa ![]() Published: 20 September 2011 by Atlantic Books ![]()
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