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Sony Online To Sell Virtual Property
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.
"How much for your woman?"
Way to open the door to abuse Sony, using ebay was bad enough.
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Although:
1) Enslave kids and the elderly and for them to play.
2)
3) Profit!
How exactly does one catch a total carp?
Charles Keating brought in to advise.
Live money?
Is that five pound note moving?
Argh! Get it off me! I can't breathe!
...Poor players will have to work for their virtual items, while some punk kid will spend his paycheck on a +1,000 sword of n00bPower.
It makes sense to me to limit or ban this kind of trading/buying. What's the point of earning money and stats, if you can simply buy them?
Just wait until we find out we are part of some weird RPG run by supreme beings and death happens when the player controlling you rolls a new character. I just hope my player doesn't start randomly selling my stuff off for GodBucks :-|
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
So the rich get to stay on top even in games?
oh what fun that will be, my character can be a penniless student just like in real life.
Be you Admins? nay, we are but lusers!
However, I am already buying enough tangible shit from Sony like Michael Jackson & Jessica Simpson CDs without needing to spend any more with you.
At least with the tangible shit, I have something to throw at the cat or at the TV screen when I realise you guys have ripped me off again.
Regards
Blah blah blah
Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
my star, and my plot on the moon.
I thought Cookie Monster was advocating a sensible diet now.
Poor people at a disadvantage to those with high disposable incomes! I can only hope that life doesn't imitate art or we could end up living in a world where the wealthy have access to the best homes, food, clothing, transport, education and health care! What a nightmarish vision!
Hello and may all the Gods of Everguest Bless Yuo!
I am writing because I know that yuo are a sincer and honest person who will hep out a preson in need.
My Everquest cahacter MINOLLY WEATHERALL was sadly kilt in a server crash leaving behind an account of $70,000,000 SEVENTY MILLION AMERICN DOLLARS with no claimant accessible.
If you wil assist me with your Everquest cahracter to recover this money I wil give you 15% plus expenses
This is a sincer offer and I know I can trust you with this verry sensitiv informations!
--- Attorneys Assisting Citizen-Soldiers & Families -
Only in front of the camera.. you should see him and Kirstie go at the munchies backstage...
Hokey statistics and ancient misconceptions are no match for a good thought in your head, kid!
So, if virtual swords are worth real money, and if I steal your virtual sword, can I get arrested in the real world? What if I p-kill you? I need a blue pill...
One man's Funny is another man's Offtopic.
golden tee live (a new version of a popular bar-video-golf game) just recently added some new features including paying-for-virtual-property, such as different club-sets or even boxes of golfballs which you DO lose as you hit them into the water.
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>We joke, but there are some interesting that could come out of this.
Would be fun:
Highway robbery:
When you rob somebody in-game, do you check your paypal account to find that yes, you just got 11 dollars?
Sell food:
I grow food, sell it to you... Can I direct the proceeds to my paypal account and go buy myself real groceries?
Hire mercenaries:
"Junior, get off the computer." She sreamed to the top of her lungs from downstairs.
"But Ma, if I guard the storehouse for two hours more I'll get 15 dollars!"
"All right, but not a minute longer..."
Beg for mercy:
"Good Sire! Please kill me not! I have but a few dollars worth of coins in my pocket... If you spare me, I will give you $20."
"All right. I'll not kill you. You have 10 minutes to paypal me, or you're really gonna get it."
Property disputes:
"Your Honor, Knight AlwaysFaithful here, filing a complaint against Assassin ShadowStabber. Since he moved next door to me, my armory business has fallen on hard times, and I don't think it's fair because I paid good money ($300) for this fine establishment."
Squatters:
Need I say more?
Guests:
"Hey, Mister, won't you let me spend the night on your property tonight... I'll make it worth your while..."
More guests:
"Hey fool, let us spend the night on your property tonight, or we kill you every day for the rest of the year."
Even more guests:
"Hey, lemme store some of my junk here. I'll pay you $1 for storing it."
Two days later: "Hey, give me my stuff back, I paid the money, now give it up!"
I can tell it's going to be really fun...
"Piter, too, is dead."
Me like you ! You want #1 Good Time ? Me have sister in your area, you call this number have many many good time bang bang ! Five Dollar ! Good time 5 dollar !!!!
Guns are for wimps... Use a crossbow.. this way you can pin them to their chair when you go postal.