[MUD-Dev] Buying benefits

[Vincent Archer]

According to Matt Mihaly:
> On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Richard Aihoshi aka Jonric wrote:

>> It's not one of the "big guys", but a title that has announced it
>> will be selling items for real currency is Project Entropia.
 
> Yeah, and they are geniuses or, more likely, have no clue what
> they are doing, at least in my opinion.

When I saw the latest press release, the qualifier that sprang to
mind was "the game that launders dirty money".

Basically, if everything I've understood is right, they expect to
sell in-game cash and items for money, and allow people to "recycle"
these in-game items for real-world cash. Their profit is done by
taking a margin on the transactions (you sell for less than you
bought).

The very first thing that sprung to mind was these slimy guys buying
tons of expensive in-game gear in a south american venue, then
meeting as a bunch of pixels in game, and selling the gear back for
untracable cash ("honest officer, I'm making all that money by being
a professsional bodyguard in *that* game").

(that's simplistic, but hell, that's the first thing that I tought
of)

Probably inapplicable for drug money (I assume you need a credit
card transaction to buy in the first place), but perfect to muddy a
financial trail.

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Vincent Archer                                         Email: archer at nevrax.com

Nevrax France.                              Off on the yellow brick road we go!
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