http://www.virtualeconomies.net/2007/01/25/ebay-to-halt-virtual-item-sales/ Real Money Trading (RMT) in MMORPGs Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:23:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.virtualeconomies.net/2007/01/25/ebay-to-halt-virtual-item-sales/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Virtual Worlds, Real Profits - » Demographics Drive Growth of Power-Leveling Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:02:18 +0000 http://www.virtualeconomies.net/blog/2007/01/25/ebay-to-halt-virtual-item-sales/#comment-8 [...] Daniel notes that power-leveling services may be getting new customers due to eBay’s decision to halt the of auction of game accounts. The availability of high-level accounts on eBay made it simple for players to reach level 60 in the time it takes to process a Paypal transaction. Power-leveling is an alternate route to the upper levels, in which a service charges a fee to quickly advance a character to the desired level: “They give us their character name, their password and they tell us which level they want us to reach for them,” said Flora Chen, manager of Guy4Game, a power-leveling company based in Canada that also has operations in China, Korea, Japan and Mexico. “Some just want to reach levels as fast as possible, so they say to (play for them) 24 hours a day.” [...] [...] Daniel notes that power-leveling services may be getting new customers due to eBay’s decision to halt the of auction of game accounts. The availability of high-level accounts on eBay made it simple for players to reach level 60 in the time it takes to process a Paypal transaction. Power-leveling is an alternate route to the upper levels, in which a service charges a fee to quickly advance a character to the desired level: “They give us their character name, their password and they tell us which level they want us to reach for them,” said Flora Chen, manager of Guy4Game, a power-leveling company based in Canada that also has operations in China, Korea, Japan and Mexico. “Some just want to reach levels as fast as possible, so they say to (play for them) 24 hours a day.” [...]

]]> http://www.virtualeconomies.net/2007/01/25/ebay-to-halt-virtual-item-sales/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Ding! Grats!? - Ruminations on Online Gaming, and other… stuff » Ebay Pulling Virtual Goods Auctions? Fri, 26 Jan 2007 01:16:03 +0000 http://www.virtualeconomies.net/blog/2007/01/25/ebay-to-halt-virtual-item-sales/#comment-3 [...] Ebay Pulling Virtual Goods Auctions? By Mandrel Virtual Worlds, Real Profits notes that MarkeeDragon, among others is reporting that eBay is pre-emptively pulling all auctions for virtual goods, items and accounts.  There are some conflicting reports of messages from eBay representatives, so I guess we will have to wait to see how things play out.  It could just be a temporary situation with a new person or team in charge of pulling the auctions, or it could be a change in eBay policy. [...] [...] Ebay Pulling Virtual Goods Auctions? By Mandrel Virtual Worlds, Real Profits notes that MarkeeDragon, among others is reporting that eBay is pre-emptively pulling all auctions for virtual goods, items and accounts.  There are some conflicting reports of messages from eBay representatives, so I guess we will have to wait to see how things play out.  It could just be a temporary situation with a new person or team in charge of pulling the auctions, or it could be a change in eBay policy. [...]

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