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Re: [MUD-Dev] Sony to ban sale of online characters from its popular gaming sites



 
Travis Nixon wrote:
> do you honestly look at sales on Ebay as a "root problem" rather than a symptom of certain design decisions?  I mean, to a > point, wherever people percieve value, money will become involved, and I'm not sure there's anything you can really do about that.

Not at all.  The "root problem" is the negative action/behavior garnering positive reinforcement in a means relatively uncontrollable by the developers yet simultaneous harming the in-game experience.
 
~Ryan Palacio


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