Sparter Seeks RMT Dialogue With Slashdot

Slashdot has been the site in many heated discussions of the merits or real money trading (RMT) in MMORPG games and virtual worlds, including some of the stories we’ve written here on our blog.  With the recent “official” launch of Sparter, the peer-to-peer trading exchange backed by venture capitalists Bessemer Capital, the company decided to reach out to the Slashdot crowd and allow them to ask tough questions about the new service. The discussion is titled Ask the MMOG Money Traders and provides an interesting look at some of the objections to real money trading in virtual assets.  Many of the issues and criticisms are not new, but other questions make the effort to open a real dialogue about smarter and what it is doing.  This strikes me as a very smart move by the company, which is clearly hoping that it’s “gamer2gamer” approach will be seen as a fairer business model than the centralized trading system in which IGE/Affinity and other exchanges set the pricing for the buyers and sellers.