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|  | eBay bans sale of virtual goods
A sore point amongst massively multiplayer gamers over the last few years has been loot whores or credit farmers. Loot whores and credit farmers are professionals who are playing the game for the sole reason of looting credits and/or merchandise for sale in the virtual world. These activities take away from the real gamers and put high value items in the hands of people who can pay for them in the real world. Up until now, somebody with a disposal income can purchase a fully leveled fully decked out character on WOW, jump in the game and compete on par with players who had worked hard for months to achieve their level. To sell a character in an online auction on eBay, credit farmers would carefully word it to say that the prospective buyer is purchasing the results of time spent making a character/credit/items, which would get around legal implications employed by companies who run MMO games. Most MMO games developers do not condone the sale of any virtual goods. Now that eBay has banned the sale of virtual goods and will be removing all auctions relating to virtual goods, it will make it more difficult to acquire items and/or characters that are not otherwise earn in-game out of their own efforts. I agree with eBay's decision. Loot whores can set off a bad atmosphere in-game. But someone else will take over where eBay left off. It's up to game developers to take control of markets generated by their own virtual worlds and take it away from the credit farmers. |
Posted on Tuesday, January 30, 2007.
Posted by fiona.
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