Social circles Meanwhile, in most online games, especially MMORPGs, all the really meaty social interaction is effectively outsourced to the players themselves through the guild system.
But it's an interesting admission from Sony, and one that has been reiterated over the last two or three E3 events: nostalgia and big brands are likely to dominate the triple A space going forward, while quirky, innovative and new experiences are effectively outsourced to the indie community.
The quantity part of the operation can be effectively outsourced with enough quality to make it work.
Earlier this month they reported that even the analysis of the data can be effectively outsourced this way.
Instead of isolating itself and building its own chips like Apple and Google, it's effectively outsourcing the hardware development to the experts.
As long as China continues tightly linking the renminbi to the dollar, analysts say, the People's Bank of China is effectively outsourcing the nation's monetary policy to the United States Federal Reserve.
That makes it a more profitable enterprise but it also means that Apple is effectively outsourcing its thinking about production and components to others.
Then there's ACA Capital, which helped market the C.D.O. by trumpeting its analytical expertise, even as it was effectively outsourcing the actual selection of the C.D.O.'s securities to John Paulson.
In this paper, EEs will be outsourced to be operated.
They were afraid the jobs would be outsourced to India.
