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Ask the MMOG Money Traders
Late yesterday, Sparter Inc. announced the Gamer2Gamer virtual currency trading platform. The goal: to provide a secure currency trading environment for players of Massively Multiplayer Online Games. Rather than purchasing currency outright, the goal of the project is to cut out the middleman and (implicitly) the gold-farming consortiums that supply larger for-pay sites. We were contacted by a representative from the company before the release went out, looking to speak with the Slashdot community about the service. In his words, the folks at Gamer2Gamer "are devoted gamers themselves and are well aware that not everyone will like the idea -- but we think plenty of folks will like a world where Real Money Transfer is workable and unintrusive." And so, you get the chance today to put the hard questions to them. One question per comment, please, and we'll pass on the best of the lot to be answered as soon as possible. Update: 06/14 17:58 GMT by Z : Howzer points out that there is an extensive FAQ on the service, that you can use as a springboard for questions.
How do you sleep at night? /pillows stuffed with money, sheets of spun gold?
oh you must be kidding. you're complaining of human rights violation in sweatshots where kids are, umm, forced to play video games?
Keylogger.
Yeah, but they only get one hot pocket per day, and they probably get the chicken and broccoli kind too. No one should have to suffer through those kind of conditions.
"I'd reckon they'd be better off not working a menial job that contributes nothing to themselves or society in general except to perpetuate a system of victimization. It's true they could starve but at least then they wouldn't be making the problem worse. One would hope instead that they'd do something productive and help change the system. "
You're right. Nobody should work at McDonalds, Walmart, etc. They should get a real life.