[MUD-Dev] Sony to ban sale of online characters from its popular gaming sites

Wed Apr 12 12:01:39 CEST 2000

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Travis Nixon wrote:
> do you honestly look at sales on Ebay as a "root problem" rather than =
a symptom of certain design decisions?  I mean, to a > point, wherever =
people percieve value, money will become involved, and I'm not sure =
there's anything you can really do about that.

Not at all.  The "root problem" is the negative action/behavior =
garnering positive reinforcement in a means relatively uncontrollable by =
the developers yet simultaneous harming the in-game experience.

~Ryan Palacio

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