I see where you're coming from, Aaron, but I don't understand your contention that gaming doesn't involve creating things. Games involve creating at least three things. For the sake of convenience, I'll stick to MMOs. For one, you are creating a character. This takes time, effort, and skill to accomplish, and yes, these characters can be worth a lot of money. Second, many games allow you to create objects -- such as crafted items in WoW or unique objects/settings in Second Life. I'm convinced that future games will allow more unique crafts and unique items (perhaps taking a page from Ultima Online). Third, you create data that is stored in a physical database. People like to think that anything existing in a computer is "virtual" and not "real" or "physical," but it is in fact a physical entity--some sectors on a hard disk or some such. Indeed, a character on a WoW server is at least as "real" as money (in the sense that we're not on a gold or silver standard anymore).