Comments on: Amazon Gets Into MMO-Powered Crowdsourcing

By: psp games

psp games — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:55:59 +0000

I think this increased Amazon traffic a little bit. Don’t you think so?

By: Crowdish

Crowdish — Sun, 18 May 2008 15:16:08 +0000

I think the major problem here is that someone (the writer) made the comparision to EQ and WOW - a bunch of middle-aged guys pretending they are elves. Questville - horrid name. Sounds more like it will turn into a DIY type of network meets About.com with a shiny web 2.0 skin on it.

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By: michaelportent

michaelportent — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:00:03 +0000

I think this is brilliant. As a former MMO Player, most of what occurs in an MMO is a grind-fest that’s more work than it is pleasure. Why not capitalize on the horde of people willing to grate themselves into cheese over a mesh of menial online tasks and turn it into a viable, mostly-free information source?

By: mathew johnson

mathew johnson — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:40:32 +0000

“Halt, I am the guardian of this gate. None shall pass unless they answer this riddle:
‘Does anyone know if online survey jobs are for real or scams?’”

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By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:22:32 +0000

This is a really old idea which has been re-packaged. Remember green stamps? How about airline miles? Visa points? Just because you dress it up in game clothes doesn’t mean it is a game and not a loyalty program.

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By: jeremyliew

jeremyliew — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 02:54:59 +0000

To some extent, sites like Slashdot, Digg, Yelp, Kongregate, Pogo are already applying game mechanics around leveling up, collecting etc. Kongregate is almost as explicit about it as Questville, but then again it is a games site. But Yelp does a great job of surfacing metrics that matter to it and letting these metrics drive the behavior that Yelp wants.

By: Macaroni Mike

Macaroni Mike — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:38:46 +0000

And who exactly would be interested in paltry “virtual rewards” from the likes of Amazon.com? An unlimited supply of lemmings from the third world, no doubt.

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Wed, 02 Jan 2008 23:16:30 +0000

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By: Ed Hecht

Ed Hecht — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:47:48 +0000

Lame, lame. Watch the descending flame…