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Re: [MUD-Dev] Sony to ban sale of online characters from its popular gaming sites
F. Randall Farmer wrote:
> Comments? Any EQ guys wanna share some thoughts? :-)
>
First, I have been an EQ player for over a year, so I fairly well know
the game, areas, and most everything. Recently I started buying on
Ebay and as luck would have it, I was also ripped off for about $395.
This means that now I have some experience with the Ebay feeback system,
their support group, fraud investigations and more things than what
I wanted to experience.
About the time I was devising a plan on how to make trading safer,
Verant announced that they were going to add in the new clause in
the user agreement. I wrote to them (to everyone I could get an
email address) and asked them to hold off on the plan until I had a
chance to present my proposal on how to reduce auction fraud.
Two days later Verant made the change.
I personally feel that Verant is going in the wrong direction.
They have a history of solving problems by surgical means.
In other places (maybe here too) I have posted over the years over
the need to create virtual objects that could be moved, traded, or
sold. I advocate such things as LEDO (limited edition digital objects)
and believe there is a huge potential for the virtual market.
I don't claim that trading on such a place as Ebay is going to lead to
a new virtual business. But it's a start. And for some of us that
have participated we have picked up some new ideas.
frank
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- Thread context:
- Re: [MUD-Dev] Sony to ban sale of online characters from its popular gaming sites, (continued)
- [MUD-Dev] DGD Description,
Christopher Allen ChristopherA#Skotos,net, Tue 11 Apr 2000, 21:26 GMT
- [MUD-Dev] Sony to ban sale of online characters from its popular gamingsites,
F. Randall Farmer randy#communities,com, Tue 11 Apr 2000, 18:46 GMT
- [MUD-Dev] History, background and religion,
Pileborg Joachim - FMT joachim.pileborg#fmt,se, Tue 11 Apr 2000, 17:22 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] History, background and religion,
Kevin Scott London london#cs,utk.edu, Tue 11 Apr 2000, 18:07 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] History, background and religion,
Matthew Mihaly the_logos#achaea,com, Tue 11 Apr 2000, 18:56 GMT
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