Electronic Gold Rush SegaSoft has cooked up a downright wicked virtual world for its new online game 10six. Competing companies decide to carve up this celestial body and sponsor colonists to exploit the resources buried below its surface. As one of these wretched explorers, you are offered a plot of land, a few rudimentary implements, and that's about it. As the name suggests, 10six allows 1 million people to join the battle and fight for planetary supremacy. SegaSoft has enhanced this enormous endeavor by using PostLinear's Transactor technology, which embeds a real-money economy directly into the gameplay itself.
Players dole out their hard-earned dough to buy and sell the virtual objects in the game.
If you need a mining rover to dig for minerals, you spend cold, hard cash to buy it from SegaSoft or another player. Some players will actually make big dollars trading in 10six markets, but the only way to cash in will be to live a substantial part of your life in the virtual world. Inc. All rights reserved.