Online Gaming Companies Joining the Virtual Asset Sales (VAS) model or RMT


I said it again and again and again, Real-Money Trading or RMT is here to stay, and the latest online gaming company to accept it is Level Up! Philippines.

According to Sheila Paul, Chief Operating Officer of Level Up! Philippines,

“The online game community has become so organic and so diverse that it would be hard to control people from going beyond the bounds of game rules. It’s not cheating anymore because everyone is doing it already and it’s becoming beneficial for everyone.”


Follow up:

Instead of weeding out cheaters and sellers of game items, Level-Up! is supporting the growing underground economy by coming up with some activities related to RMT and bots.

For one, Level-Up!, which distributes several titles including the widely popular Ragnarok, is already letting its players to sell items through its official online forums (www.levelupgames.ph).

The company is even planning to have an online auction of rare items on June 28. Although the online auction is not new for the company, the money would be real and not just using Ragnarok’s “zenny” currency.

(from Level Up! surrenders to underground economy)

(Personally) There is no point in fighting or stopping RMT or the use of real-world money to trade for virtual items. The reason is simple, players are tired of the hack-en-slash format of most online games. What players? The casual players. In fact I can safely say that there are some hardcore players who are also into RMT, be that they are the one buying or they are the sellers. Just like the WWF advertisements, if the buying stops, the killing stops, in RMT, if the buying stops, the farming stops.

Yes, “farming”, farming for RMT. Almost every online game is getting these EULA violations and every online gaming companies tried to stop them, and many are still trying by banning thousands of accounts monthly (example, Guild Wars and World of Warcraft). There are only two solutions, both solutions equates to revenue.

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