New Yorker article on Ultima Online

[Adam L. Beberg]

On Tue, 28 May 2002, Jim Whitehead wrote:

> Nearly a quarter of a million people subscribe, and each player logs an
> average of thirteen hours a week, meaning that in the course of a year
> Ultima absorbs more than a hundred and sixty million man-hours.
>
> Wow, 160 million person-hours.

Or 80,000 full time jobs. All of london in the year 1300.

Yes, thank god they arent out breeding, breaking, or bitching. Isn't
technology grand? A little virtual world for them to compete for resources,
and kill each other in...

30th level Elf, Lineage/Ken(no-PK) server :)

- Adam L. "Duncan" Beberg
  http://www.mithral.com/~beberg/
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