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Star Wars Galaxies Auctions Afoot
Fusty writes "Game Girl Advance is running a story about the first wave of Star Wars Galaxies auctions on Ebay. Items, credits and characters are already selling for over $250, not even a month after launch. Will Sony/Verant shut down SWG auctions, like they did the EverQuest Auctions?"
Does anyone care? If someone wants to spend $250 on a virtual light dildo (err, I mean saber), let them. It's their money.
Wow! That's more money than VA Linux will report on their next quarterly earnings release.
Pisses me off that these cheap bastards are trying to make bucks off the intellectual property of others.
Pay the fuck up!
The question shouldn't be: "Will Sony/Verant shut down SWG auctions, like they did the EverQuest Auctions?" The question should be did you guys get permission to use the name Sony/Verant.
Want Root?
try arguing that to someone who "LIVES" in one of these non-tangible worlds.
ebay: that's not real
player: huh? what are you talking about? Not Real? Psh. If i have this, i can rawk the world.
ebay: but it's not a real world either
player: YOU'RE LYING. YOU BAD BLASPHEMOUS MEANIE HEAD
your sins into me, oh my beautiful one.
I was gonna post a comment, until I scrolled down on the reference page and clicked on the "rez + vibrator" link.
Funny, Star Wars MMORGP just doesn't seem as important to me at the moment...
George Lucas is going to freeze their balls in carbonite.
"You spoony bard!" -Tellah
He already did that to everyone who paid to see Episodes I & II.
Appended to the end of comments you post. 120 chars.
I'd much rather just read this article again... mmm...
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
Republic credits will be fine..... ....these are not the droids you are looking for.
Huru ut Schulustuc, wu tuku cupyrught unfrungumunt vury suruuusly. Uur luwyurs wull bu cuntuctung yuu suun. Yuu uru nut us ununymuus us yuu thunk.
- Thu Schulustuc Lugul Tuum
Starship? They don't have starships. Maybe you're thinking of the *other* Star Wars, the one that involves space.
who read "Pehaps you can measure the popularity of an MMOG based on its auction potential", and immediately thought of this story?
"God, root, what is difference?" - Pitr, userfriendly
Of course, the scary part will be when Jabba the Hutt purchases your frozen balls for his private collection.
"You're never ready, just less unprepared."
I just got this mental image of someone screaming this at 5am with bloodshot eyes and hair all frazzled.
try arguing that to someone who "LIVES" in one of these non-tangible worlds.
Well, in that case, eBay can always "SEND" some of their level-999 minions over and "KILL" the player, thereby rendering the problem "MOOT".
I am pleased that you "deleted" what appears to be a misuse of the word looser, which means "less tightly fitted." Context would indicate that a more appropriate word is loser. It's a good thing you corrected the error.
Proudly correcting Slashdot's most irritating linguistic error since 2002.
YOU INSENSITIVE CLOD!
paintball
What is the world coming to when we need to maintain "fairness" in virtual worlds so poor kids can feel equal to rich kids?
Poor kids should do what poor kids did to rich kids when I was growing up...
Beat them up and take their lunch money.
paintball
$250? You have one hell of a cheap girlfriend...
So you're saying it's kinda like high school? I have to admit, I didn't have any fun being laughed at, made fun of, turned down by every girl, etc., until I became the suave and successful guy that I am today.
Toon toon! Black and white army!
WTS: Spoon, slightly bent.
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It's hardly "semantics" when someone points out that you're flat-out wrong, unless you're a highly placed Republican leader/fratboy.
What's the bidding start at?
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. -Frederick Douglass