{"id":137,"date":"2005-05-07T12:37:41","date_gmt":"2005-05-07T17:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=137"},"modified":"2024-06-12T15:32:49","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T22:32:49","slug":"gamespot-on-virtual-economies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=137","title":{"rendered":"Gamespot On Virtual Economies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I heard about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/news\/2005\/05\/06\/news_6123701.html\">this article<\/a> over on Gamespot and went looking yesterday, but to no avail. Fortunately, <a href=\"http:\/\/terranova.blogs.com\/terra_nova\/\">Terra Nova<\/a> provided a link which I&#8217;ve just found. From the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The market is huge&#8230; There is no way that our company can be 100 percent successful at shutting down this activity,&#8221; SOE spokesman Chris Kramer said.<\/p>\n<p>The company has watched the sale of virtual items evolve from a handful of people to an estimated $200 million market, Kramer said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve watched the secondary market skyrocket, even though it&#8217;s officially against the rules,&#8221; Kramer said. &#8220;We can no longer ignore it.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>SOE is Sony Online Entertainment, in case you didn&#8217;t know. Sony recently reversed their policy on virtual goods trading and has now joined Microsoft in supporting it. Good read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard about this article over on Gamespot and went looking yesterday, but to no avail. Fortunately, Terra Nova provided a link which I&#8217;ve just found. From the article: &#8220;The market is huge&#8230; There is no way that our company &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=137\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[147,152,104,116],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retransmit","tag-virtualcurrency","tag-virtualeconomies","tag-virtualgoods","tag-virtualworlds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2722,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/2722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}