Sony Online To Sell Virtual Property

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday April 20, 2005 @03:25AM from the first-sign-of-the-apocalypse dept.

OMG! writes "In an open letter to the community John Smedley, the president of Sony Online Entertainment, announced their new service 'the Station Exchange' which will allow players of Everquest II to trade their items for real live money. Sony Online is the first major player in the MMORPG genre to embrace commercial trading of in-game items." Commentary available from all the usual suspects, including Wired, the Players, Terra Nova, F13, and Grimwell. This would seem to be a total reversal of the policies of certain other MMOGs.

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Re:Completely ridiculous by Moo+Moo+Cow+of+Death · 2005-04-20 07:20 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I'm sorry, did you just compare selling virtual items to murder? Because here I thought we were on the planet earth, where we could at least make a "close comparison" or use "common sense" in analogies. Maybe you should've thought in your collective addled brain,"Gee, comparing murder to selling virtual items would make me sound like a fucking nutcase."

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