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A thought experiment on RMT

2007-12-24 10:03:00 by Tobold in Tobold's MMORPG Blog
 
...RMT , I came up with a thought experiment, based funnily enough on Ultima Online, the game Raph designed. The one design question UO more or less "solved" was whether people wanted unrestricted PvP. It did so by creating two mirror images of the world, one with and one without PvP. Over 90% of the population ended up in the non-PvP half...
 
Tags: rmt, high-rmt, high-rmt version, low-rmt version, zero-rmt, low-rmt, rmt game, legal rmt, pvp
 
 
 
 
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The Forge on RMT = Prostitution

2008-02-08 15:42:00 by Tobold in Tobold's MMORPG Blog
 
...RMT is like prostitution : the secondary crimes surrounding the activity are often worse than the primary activity. From that he concludes that the easiest way to avoid RMT problems is to legalize it. SOE agrees and transfers their Station Exchange to Live Gamer , a company running legal RMT for any game company that wants to legalize it Me,...
 
Tags: rmt, rmt market, rmt customers, gold spam, gold, avoid rmt, prostitution, legal rmt, multiple buyers
 
 
 
 
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Zen of RMT Design

2008-03-20 12:59:00 by Tobold in Tobold's MMORPG Blog
 
...RMT and basic fairness . Quote: Most current MMO players perceive buying power as cheating. Even the ones who are doing it do. These same players do not bat an eye at mailing some unused gear to an alt, or dropping a hundred gold into the mail for their girlfriends brother. But if the brother buys it from Goldfarmers R Us well, thats just...
 
Tags: rmt, pro-rmt, huge plasma tv, game, plasma tv, epic in-game, fair result, fair, achievement
 
 
 
 
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Sex, drugs, and RMT

2008-03-13 08:21:00 by Tobold in Tobold's MMORPG Blog
 
...RMT) is evil. Some people live in a world of moral absolutes, which is most easily achieved by not thinking too closely about the issue. While there is a good argument to be made that the resignation of Eliot Spitzer over his prostitution affair is justified, it is harder to argue that the woman involved was evil. What if the man hadn't been...
 
Tags: rmt, evil, ebay evil, gold, gold seller, recent gold-seller interview, virtual, rmt industry, virtual currency
 
 
 
 
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Massively: SOE's The Agency and Free Realms will offer RMT services

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2008-05-14 11:29:31 by Editor in VirginWorlds MMO News
...RMT services for both Free Realms and The Agency when they're released. These services will be offered through the third party company Live Gamer , likely in a similar arrangement to the company's current model on the EverQuest 2 title. This news comes just a day after the announcement that Live Gamer will be working with Petrogryph Games on...
 
Tags: free, free realms, services, offer rmt services, offer, free-to-play, subscriber-only services, agency, live gamer
 
 
 
 
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SOE's The Agency and Free Realms will offer RMT services

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2008-05-14 11:15:00 by Michael Zenke in Massively
...RMT services for both Free Realms and The Agency when they're released. These services will be offered through the third party company Live Gamer , likely in a similar arrangement to the company's current model on the EverQuest 2 title. This news comes just a day after the announcement that Live Gamer will be working with Petrogryph Games on...
 
Tags: free, free realms, services, offer rmt services, offer, free-to-play, subscriber-only services, agency, live gamer
 
 
 
 
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RMT On Tobolds Blog

2008-03-14 01:45:28 by caliga in MMO Gamers
 
...RMT). His post actually got me thinking. Ive always been opposed to RMT, and while I still am opposed, Im not so single minded about it. Tobold makes valid points about SOE Station Exchange servers allowing RMT as well as other legal avenues. And then you have those Free-To-Play models which have cut out the gold sellers by being the gold...
 
Tags: gold, gold sellers, rmt, sellers, tobolds blog, in-game gold, real money trade, post, free-to-play models
 
 
 
 
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That Libertarian RMT Argument

2008-03-20 04:30:58 by Damion in Zen of Design
 
...RMT, Im not buying it. If you believe that gold farming causes disruptive game situations such as kill stealing, then legitimizing RMT in this case is more likely to cause disruptive behavior, rather than reduce it. As the EULA stands now, gold farmers are incentivized to hide their activities, and not leave any sort of paper trail of CSR...
 
Tags: rmt, free trade, trade, gold farmers, street prostitution, prostitution, bad drug batches, normal human activity, reduce crime
 
 
 
 
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That Libertarian RMT Argument

2008-03-20 04:30:58 by Damion in Zen of Design
 
...RMT, Im not buying it. If you believe that gold farming causes disruptive game situations such as kill stealing, then legitimizing RMT in this case is more likely to cause disruptive behavior, rather than reduce it. As the EULA stands now, gold farmers are incentivized to hide their activities, and not leave any sort of paper trail of CSR...
 
Tags: rmt, free trade, trade, gold farmers, street prostitution, prostitution, bad drug batches, normal human activity, reduce crime
 
 
 
 
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That Libertarian RMT Argument

2008-03-20 04:30:58 by Damion in Zen of Design
 
...RMT, Im not buying it. If you believe that gold farming causes disruptive game situations such as kill stealing, then legitimizing RMT in this case is more likely to cause disruptive behavior, rather than reduce it. As the EULA stands now, gold farmers are incentivized to hide their activities, and not leave any sort of paper trail of CSR...
 
Tags: rmt, free trade, trade, gold farmers, street prostitution, prostitution, bad drug batches, normal human activity, reduce crime