MMO Companies Form Alliance Against Piracy

gorgeth — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 04:09:17 GMT

The reason is, real money trading doesn't hurt the games, or the companies involved.. UNTIL/UNLESS the tax collectors come and make them report in game holdings as income etc..

Fact #1 the only reason any company talks about being "against" account/item/cash trading within games .. is because they dont want to police it themselves.. IE they dont want to be the middle man between customer/customer disputes.. and as such they simply say "we don't allow it and thus the buyer must beware"

If blizzard had ANY idea that they felt real money trading was bad, that recent account sale would have been banned and it would have been put out in a press release to every corner of the web.. they also would have permabanned the original owner via address/credit card info from ever playing wow again..

The only thing that most of these companies care about is (in wow's case) the in game harassment/spams and actual hacking/cheaing with regards to making money/etc.