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But eBay said it has a different opinion about goods from the virtual world Second Life.
Durzy told CNET News.com that the auction giant has decided to specifically exempt Linden Lab's Second Life from the list of virtual worlds and online games whose auctions it will ban.
"If someone participates in Second Life and wants to sell something they own, we are not at this point proactively pulling those listings off the site," Durzy said. "We think there is an open question about whether Second Life should be regarded as a game."
Second Life publisher Linden Lab has long tried to distinguish its virtual world from online games, in part because activity there revolves around a functioning economy in which players own anything they create or possess. By extension, Linden Lab specifically sanctions players buying and selling Second Life goods, even on eBay.
To Dmitri Williams, an assistant professor in speech communications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, eBay's stance on Second Life makes sense, especially in comparison with standard online games.
"It's consistent with Second Life that the economy outside the world is part of the world, whereas these other games are really trying to enforce the magic circle, that the rules inside the game are different from the rules outside the game (in order) to protect the sanctity of the game," Williams said.
Sony Online Entertainment has ventured into a hybrid direction related to permitting RMT trades by launching Station Exchange, a company-run market for EverQuest II goods, that governs some of its servers while others prohibit such behavior. To Short, the example set by Station Exchange is something other online game publishers should follow.
"From our standpoint, (eBay's decision) vindicates the idea of Station Exchange," Short said. "If companies take responsibility for the idea that things like this are going on and give their players a service that's a lot less risky, the players that want to buy can get their goods?without the worry that comes with third-party services."
Dibbell agreed, particularly because the publisher of the game whose goods he trafficked in when writing his book, Ultima Online, has been willing to let players do what they want when it comes to RMT.
"At the end of the day, the blame comes back to the companies that are banning this kind of trade," Dibbell said. "It's sort of disappointing that eBay is going to decide that though some of these trades are legitimate, they're going to ban them all."
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it - which is exactly what's wrong with this whole thing.
You may have heard of this as a pyramid scheme. I don?t know how Linden Labs digs out if the pyramid collapses. How does CNet justify supporting that?
eBay may want to rethink their position and ban all virtual goods except those that can actually be taken elsewhere. SL goods have no value off the Linden Labs server because it is a closed system.
We will have to be ready to justify real-time 3D technology in all of its genre from visualization to VR when the LL virtual economy begins to crash. With the Davos group jumping in, the egg splash is likely to be rather large and it will swamp boats tied to their moorings.
eula's are starting to turn out to be systems by which the player is disadvantaged and I have stopped playing such games as guild wars just because of it. If I had been presented with the eula on the outside of the package and how exactly it would be enforced I never would have bought all the accounts I have for my family.
One should be able to make the critical judgement that vendors will modify the game only to fix things instead of nerfing/gelding/destroying the game play by constantly making things/items/gold harder to get. Additionally, and right on the money, is the fact that if I invest my time in the acquisition of any items, this effort and resources I exercised is exclusively my own and can not be claimed by the vendor. Let us use this addle-brained move by ebay to bring into question the rights of the players.
What may be more likely is the pressure exerted by publishers/developers to squeeze themselves into this lucrative market.
These games no longer provide any entertainment.
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The Amazon item is titled the way you have said, but the snapshot of the cover clearly agrees with the way it is referenced in this article.
As for auctions, www.playerauctions.com allows the individual to sell and not have to sell to a middle man who profits hugely.
So the author of this article really didn't do their homework which is sad because now folks will that that there isn't any other choice.
this is an email i have copied and have been sending it to all former ebay sellers
I wrote this myself:
'I am glad you sent this email, as i was unaware of this happing. I havent been a customer of your for a long time, glad you remembered.
I myself was starting my on virtual business, and I find this appalling. I hope someone with the money for a lawyer takes this on.
We are NOT selling virtual items - we are selling the service for acquiring these items.
This is no different than being a currier service for the elderly, in which you go out and by groceries and receive payment for such. It is not retail, its a service for those who cannot or will not acquire these things for themselves!
Please, I know you own your own site but this is a step to ending the virtual game item market which is the future of the virtual gaming world. We are not selling firearms, alcohol, nor tobacco. We are selling ourselves and our time, nothing more.
Please fight this with all you have, if you cant in court at least pass this on, maybe someone out does have the means.
We are not infringing on any copyrights nor trademarks. This is an attack on our rights as a business. If we were breaking the law it be different.
The life of games like Ultima Online thrive on the ongoing accounts that are sold and reused. Players want to pay someone else to spend the time acquiring things for them so they may play and enjoy the game with no hassle of wasting time on item farming.
We are a service not a retail outlet.'
thank you for your time
ps: if this is a concern for you than maybe we can as a group appeal this ban, competitors and friends alike, we must stand against this. ebay is just the beginning, korea has started passin laws against all sales of virtual items."
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