Playbourer

Playbourer is a portmanteau word used by the Manchester University Development Informatics Group of the Institute for Development Policy and Management to describe a person who earns his living playing computer games to earn virtual goods that can be sold for real money. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7575902.stm] Much of this activity goes on in China with popular MMORPG games such as World of Warcraft being the source of income.

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* http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/idpm/research/publications/wp/di/documents/di_wp32.pdf the publication that coined the term Playbourer.