Home story about Anshe in DER SPIEGEL, largest german news magazine

A hessian teacher ascended to the large basic owner in an on-line play. Past profit: nearly 200,000 dollar - in genuine money.


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In the morning, if the children from the house are, another life begins for the nut/mother. It is called now Anshe Chung. It switches its computer on and counts the incomes of the last night.

Mrs. Chung makes trueful wunderliche business: In the on-line play "Second Life" speculates it in development land. More than eight million square meters belong to it already. Fellow players warn of a property monopoly.

Spielerin Chung in the on-line world:Ten dollar as starting capital
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Spielerin Chung in the on-line world: Ten dollar as starting capital
In the first life Mrs. Chung is called differently. She lives at the hessian mountain route, not far from the castle ruin Franconia stone, and she gives language instruction at a people's highschool. In the play world however it is well-known as Anshe Chung, the Magnatin, which incorporates their company of the same name always new real estates.

"Second Life" is popular with Haeuslebauern and end of workday architects. The inhabitants meet on-line, in order to establish enormous arbours, glaeserne space stations or nozzle-driven castle in the airs. Well 500 players are Anshechung.com in the meantime subject to the payment of interest; they live as tenants on their Laendereien. The lease is settled with play money, which the user must change against US dollar.

Teacher Chung, immigrated from China, controls her Imperium of the roof room of their terraced house out. In hardly two years it brought the grazile new German to sayful wealth. And from its play dollar could become at any time serious: To "Second Life" belongs an on-line stock exchange, where the fictitious Binnenwaehrung is exchanged for genuine money.

With the current rate of exchange Chungs fortune is US dollar worth to the 200,000.

"up to now", it says, "I invested however nearly everything again." It applies to use the boom of the virtual economics. The players build gladly in fine areas (and at least as stately as the neighbours). And the influx after "Second Life" tears not off: Already more than 100,000 settlers established themselves here.

The operator company lime trees lab in San Francisco throws always new land surfaces on the market. Nevertheless building ground is usually limited in good situations. Anshe Chung supplies itself in time in the large yardstick. "I buy the country of the operator", say her, "and then develop I it." That means: It puts on hills and valleys, distributes palms, rivers and wasserfaelle.

The software of the play permits nearly jederlei organization. Snow landscapes, tropical islands and oases between sandduenen develop. Subcontractor charms hie and there fairy taleful palaces. The finished Laendereien is divided at the end worth-increasing into plots and leased to bauwuetige new settlers.

In the meantime Anshechung.com acts with dozens of extensive settlement areas, which look like topic parks. They are called Friesland, Matsushima or A'ksha Oasis. Chungs enormous island realm "Dreamland" is considered as exzellente situation. There the Patronin, because you belong everything, can implement rigide development plans. While in the play world everyone klotzt elsewhere as desired, harmony prevails on Dreamland: Who wants to play trumps beside a Shinto shrine with Black Forest mansions, the lease is quit to that.

Anshes married man, a computer scientist, is responsible in the common enterprise for counting. However already the current fixed costs require some nerve strength: Converted more than 25,000 dollar in the month goes at present - than a kind real estate tax - to the operator company lime trees lab.

With this tax the constantly growing world is financed by "Second Life". It is distributed on 1400 network computers; everyone simulates a fictitious land surface of well 65,000 square meters. Anshechung.com possesses 130 of such grid squares; everyone contributes with scarcely 200 dollar to fiscal charges.

Nevertheless the Magnatin had to supply still no genuine money - the incomes in the play were always higher than the due fees. It is enough even already for five employees, who help against play money with the administration or as landscape gardners lauschige parks to put on.

Two years is not it Anshe Chung conceivablly small ago, there began. "my starting capital amounted to scarcely ten dollar", says it. So much costs uniquely the entrance to the play. Only she hired herself as Gesellschafterin for lonely settlers, then she tailors virtual dresses after asiatic taste for the play figures of other people. With the saved one only it rose in the real estate business.

But zuengeln again and again completely different rumors under the inhabitant shank of "Second Life": Didn't the Landbaronin buy itself nevertheless simply with bundles genuine dollar? A few merchant went you to the defiance with a new real estate company named Cyberland to the play stock exchange. Well 500,000 shares distribute themselves now on 549 owners.

Of the Cyberland AG one heard however so far few. Also otherwise the Magnatin can become dangerous from Hessen hardly an adversary. The second largest real estate shark in the play world follows in safe distance: Anshechung.com possesses nearly ten times as much as the competitor.

If you can handle babelfish..

A lot of the sentences are good for a hearty laugh, though - like always when applying babelfish to a longer text.

Like, "Lime Trees Labs" which I'm assuming is "Linden Labs" :

Babelfish is cute!

If anyone is honestly interested, I am sure we can get a much better translation.

I am wondering a little where the sudden interest in Second Life in the German mediascape is rooted. Or should Linden Lab really do some international PR?

Congratulations to Anshe. It is quite an accomplishment to receive coverage in a magazine on the level of Der Spiegel, and it is wonderful for both Anshe and Second Life.

PS - next up, Aimee Weber in the Spiegel Catalog!

Who cares, tired of hearing about Anshe and company, and the bush signs guy.

Like, "Lime Trees Labs" which I'm assuming is "Linden Labs" :

"It switches its computer on and counts the incomes of the last night."

It's like Babelfish has been watching too much Silence of the Lambs.

Sie schläft mit dem Teufel. Tod zu Anshe! Tod zu Land Barons!

~Ulrika~

Pham, yeah, like turning Stephen Coveys from all over into Stephen Kings!

Just in case you want a battle cry that will be comprehensible for Germans, too (if you need that), I'll gladly offer my services next time.

I agree. Really it's the same story, different magazine.