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<blockquote data-quote="BiggusGeekus" data-source="post: 47977" data-attributes="member: 1014">1) If my character has a magic sword in an MMORPG what that means is that I am currently paying money to use the MMORPGs intellectual property (of the character) and if I do certain things (complete a quest in game) they will further let me use the intellectual property of the magic sword.At no point do I &quot;own&quot; anything to sell to someone else.2) I know the EQ folks at least think e-Bay hurts the game.&nbsp; I talked to some of the developers and one of the GMs while we all had been drinking after a Fan Faire.&nbsp; What they are concerned about is a undergound market forming that extends it's e-Bay enterprise into RL.&nbsp; So if you promise your guildmaster that you will get Golden Efritti Boots by Thursday and you fail ... have you broken a contract?&nbsp; Furthermore, will a climaite have been created where the guild will beat the snot out of you in RL if you don't do it?&nbsp; Those are extreeme cases, but the dev/support team of EQ doesn't want that&nbsp; kind of thing in their game.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BiggusGeekus, post: 47977, member: 1014"] 1) If my character has a magic sword in an MMORPG what that means is that I am currently paying money to use the MMORPGs intellectual property (of the character) and if I do certain things (complete a quest in game) they will further let me use the intellectual property of the magic sword. At no point do I "own" anything to sell to someone else. 2) I know the EQ folks at least think e-Bay hurts the game. I talked to some of the developers and one of the GMs while we all had been drinking after a Fan Faire. What they are concerned about is a undergound market forming that extends it's e-Bay enterprise into RL. So if you promise your guildmaster that you will get Golden Efritti Boots by Thursday and you fail ... have you broken a contract? Furthermore, will a climaite have been created where the guild will beat the snot out of you in RL if you don't do it? Those are extreeme cases, but the dev/support team of EQ doesn't want that kind of thing in their game. [/QUOTE]

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