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Sony Online Entertainment's president John Smedley said at his keynote speech at the Austin Game Developers Conference that SOE would be releasing a subscription-free MMORPG. Much as SOE's EverQuest II partially works, their upcoming MMORPG will allow players to buy access to new zones and equipment in lieu of a monthly fee.
Smedley did not give a release window for the game, other than that they "[will] be launching this quickly."

I guess the selling of items\characters on Ebay has got Mr Smedley thinking. I think this is going to be a massive growth area in MMORPGS, buying virtual items for real money, much like credits are bought and sold now. It would be interesting to see if they try to impliment this system into this game.

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teamdoa wrote:

Sony Online Entertainment's president John Smedley said at his keynote speech at the Austin Game Developers Conference that SOE would be releasing a subscription-free MMORPG. Much as SOE's EverQuest II partially works, their upcoming MMORPG will allow players to buy access to new zones and equipment in lieu of a monthly fee.
Smedley did not give a release window for the game, other than that they "[will] be launching this quickly."

I guess the selling of items\characters on Ebay has got Mr Smedley thinking. I think this is going to be a massive growth area in MMORPGS, buying virtual items for real money, much like credits are bought and sold now. It would be interesting to see if they try to impliment this system into this game.

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Will ruin mmorpgs if others do this.

I hope SoE fails miserabley with it.

Everquest has had an ebay style server for ages.

Games like that already exist,like Project Entropia where some dumb american recently payed 100.000 us dollars for a private spacestation..with real cash...