Business And Economy Archive

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Florimel wrote:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050420-4834.html?35689&88169

Seem like Sony has decided it wants a piece of the EBay mporg market. I wonder how long till the change happens to SWG? What effect do people think it will have?

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We already have own forum for this. Lot's of opinions there.

I think that it will come to SWG in end of year and it will set RL value for everything ingame. But this is only my opinion...

Which will be interesting because my in game net worth before CU beta was about 300-500m. It looks like it might be about 10m after. At current exchange rates that's a real world loss of up to $1,960, and if you go by the exchange rates from a couple of months ago before they started dropping significantly that would be a RL loss of up to $3,430.

Would that be actionable in the future? Especially with the scale in which the cu is destroying in game net worth. As these games evolve and become ever increasingly tied to the RL economically it's going to be interesting to see how these things flesh out in courts. Will there be pressures to keep exchange rates high? If some one where to steal a weapon from me with a RL value of $500 could I take him to small claims?

Brave new world now that it's sanctioned.

I hope they restrict it to several servers only. I doubt anyone will be able to sue SOE because SOE's property lost value.

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ObiQuixote wrote:
Which will be interesting because my in game net worth before CU beta was about 300-500m. It looks like it might be about 10m after. At current exchange rates that's a real world loss of up to $1,960, and if you go by the exchange rates from a couple of months ago before they started dropping significantly that would be a RL loss of up to $3,430.

Would that be actionable in the future? Especially with the scale in which the cu is destroying in game net worth. As these games evolve and become ever increasingly tied to the RL economically it's going to be interesting to see how these things flesh out in courts. Will there be pressures to keep exchange rates high? If some one where to steal a weapon from me with a RL value of $500 could I take him to small claims?

Brave new world now that it's sanctioned.

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I hope that you don't think that virtual items are investment. Eventually SOE is going to close all SWG servers and those hard drivescontaining all those "valuable" virtual reality items are sended to nearest dumping place.

I don't know if they will be an investment, but the move this thread is talking about points out that the line between virtual and real goods is getting real blurry. What I was trying to point out is, as this line becomes blurry and nonexistent do the laws and regulations that apply to real world property become applied to virtual property? And what would be the implications from this if they do.