I see the largest problem as letting an in game items hold real world value. If they support this or the court orders them to let it happen they open themselves up for all kinds of legal problems. What is something happens to their servers and some characters get wiped out. Can they then be sued for the value of the characters? Or what if some type of dupe bug finds it way in? Then you have a lot of people who might have paid quite a bit for some items that are now worth nothing..you can bet they will have something to say to Mythic. You even leave room for a banned player(perhaps for ksing or maybe for just being a jerk) open to try to sue for the price of his character if he feels he should not have been banned. The current games on the market were not set up to deal with issues like this and I think its really up to them for how they want to deal with them. After all this is not a Dev Tool, or even an office tool used to create things. Its a game, with a large random number gen that pops things out if you spend enough time playing it.
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I see the largest problem as letting an in game items hold real world value. If they support this or the court orders them to let it happen they open themselves up for all kinds of legal problems. What is something happens to their servers and some characters get wiped out. Can they then be sued for the value of the characters? Or what if some type of dupe bug finds it way in? Then you have a lot of people who might have paid quite a bit for some items that are now worth nothing..you can bet they will have something to say to Mythic. You even leave room for a banned player(perhaps for ksing or maybe for just being a jerk) open to try to sue for the price of his character if he feels he should not have been banned. The current games on the market were not set up to deal with issues like this and I think its really up to them for how they want to deal with them. After all this is not a Dev Tool, or even an office tool used to create things. Its a game, with a large random number gen that pops things out if you spend enough time playing it.