[MUD-Dev] Are eBay sales more than just a fad?

[Koster]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mud-dev-admin at kanga.nu 
> [mailto:mud-dev-admin at kanga.nu]On Behalf Of
> Matthew Mihaly
> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 2:04 PM
> To: mud-dev at kanga.nu
> Subject: Re: [MUD-Dev] Are eBay sales more than just a fad?
> 
> We don't allow the transfer of items bought from 
> us with real
> money, because we don't really see any reason to cannibalize our own
> magical-artifact-selling business by allowing other people to 
> get in on
> it.

Do you flag the item with the character's id somehow so that it is literally
unusable by anyone else? If not, how do you prevent people from transferring
the items?

> Boy, I can't wait for the rest of the industry to start adopting our
> model. You can fight it, but our model is the future, like it or not.

Every time it's come up, the gamers on the dev staff have recoiled in
horror. :)

-Raph



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