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Mythic Sued Over Blocking Auctions of Game Tokens
Lukenary writes: "Mythic Entertainment, creator of the excellent MMORPG Dark Age of Camelot, is being sued by BlackSnow Interactive, owner and maintainer of CamelotExchange - an online auction site for the exchange of in-game items, money, and characters/accounts. This could be a landmark case: if you spend (typically) weeks of playing time to garner 1,000 gold in-game, do you have the right to auction off that gold for real money? Mythic has not yet had an official response to the suit, but you can read BSI's press release at the CamelotExchange site above. Personally, I find it interesting that BSI is going after DAoC, calling Mythic a "software giant," while ignoring the more established compettion in EverQuest producer Sony, Asheron's Call producer Microsoft, and Ultima Online producer Electronic Arts. Mythic's only product at this time is Dark Age of Camelot, which was released last October."
Some auctions go through, others are banned.
To the average observer, you never see the banned auctions, so it seems like there is a market.
You may spend your hundreds of hours playing the game with the sole intent of making money to pay for college(like my one friend), only to find out Mythic bans your auctions on ebay.
The auctions that go through? Well I have heard some bad things that Mythic is actually selling the stuff themselves and banning other people.
Think: Create an online object server side and get 1,000$.... Do this about 50 times a month... and thats a salary that took less than a half hour to aquire.
Definately stuff worth suing over. At least to let the public know if Mythic is doing this shady buisness practice.
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