Sensationalist is the journalist trademark (Score 1)

Typical of a general media story that uses sensationalist dollar amounts with no backing, and particularly no definition of what that really means - is the in game assets worth real world money or are the subscriber income worth significant revenues to the game owners? True that some games give players the ability to farm income and convert to real world money - but how much of that is comparable to a real days work for real money??? I play Unification Wars at http://www.gamestotal.com/ which has almost a million players these days, and they promote in-game assets and bonuses worth actual dollar amounts. The way I play though it takes many days worth of turns to earn a donation-point (worth one real dollar)... I suppose we all benefit when these stories bring in more players...