Blizzard Cracks Down On Warcraft RMT Through PayPal

By On January 31, 2011 · 1 Comment

Activision Blizzard is cracking down on RMT in its World of Warcraft MMORPG by filing intellectual property complaints with PayPal. Users who are accepting payments through PayPal for World of Warcraft virtual currency, avatars, and virtual items have begun to receive notices that they must remove all World of Warcraft-related virtual goods or lose their [...]

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Engage Digital Wrap-Up For The Week Of January 15, 2011

By On January 15, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Welcome to the Engage Digital Wrap-Up for the week of January 15, 2011. The Wrap-Up is where Engage Digital spotlights stories that we didn’t get to cover individually, but still make for interesting reading about the business of user engagement. Buffalo Wild Wings Gets Interactive With SCVNGR Promo: SCVNGR is launching a basketball-themed promo with [...]

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Zynga Sues PlayerAuctions.com

By On April 16, 2010 · Leave a Comment

This week the social game developer Zynga filed suit against the third-party virtual goods reseller PlayerAuctions.com, alleging that the site was violating Zynga's Terms of Service and unlawfully using materials copyrighted by Zynga. PlayerAuctions.com was allowing individual players of Zynga games to sell and buy virtual currency for real money, including currency from top Zynga [...]

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Zynga Sues PlayerAuctions.com

By On April 15, 2010 · Leave a Comment

This week the social game developer Zynga filed suit against the third-party virtual goods reseller PlayerAuctions.com, alleging that the site was violating Zynga's Terms of Service and unlawfully using materials copyrighted by Zynga. PlayerAuctions.com was allowing individual players of Zynga games to sell and buy virtual currency for real money, including currency from top Zynga [...]

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Live Gamer Launches Free Realms Marketplace

By On December 18, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Today the virtual economy services firm Live Gamer announced the opening of a Live Gamer Exchange (LGX) for the Sony Online Entertainment freemium game Free Realms. The Live Gamer Exchange is a secondary player-to-player marketplace where players can opt to sell their in-game possessions for real money to other Free Realms players. Access to the [...]

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Playfish Files Suit Against Third-Party Item Seller

By On September 15, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Today Playfish disclosed to Virtual Goods News that it had filed suit against the Singaporean third-party item reseller GosuMall and its webhost Rackspace, alleging copyright infringement, false designation of origin, trademark infringement, unfair competition, dilution and injury to business reputation, breath of contract, and intentional interference with contractual relations. The suit was filed in San [...]

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EVE Online Drops CPU Use 30% By Banning Gold Farmers

By On August 21, 2009 · Leave a Comment

This week EVE Online announced the results of its latest program to try and remove users who break the game's EULA by buying and selling its virtual currency. Called "Unholy Rage," the operation has banned approximately 9000 accounts (over 2% of the game's total population) believed to be engaged in sale of in-game ISK virtual [...]

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Virtual Goods Wrap-Up For The Week Of June 19

By On June 19, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Welcome to the Virtual Goods News Wrap-Up for the week of June 19, 2009. The Wrap-Up is where VGN spotlights stories that we didn't get to cover individually, but still make for interesting reading about the virtual goods industry. Chris Anderson's Counterintuitive Rules For Charging For Media OnlineThe editor-in-chief of Wired discusses the business potential [...]

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Virtual Goods Wrap-Up For The Week Of June 19

By On June 19, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Welcome to the Virtual Goods News Wrap-Up for the week of June 19, 2009. The Wrap-Up is where VGN spotlights stories that we didn't get to cover individually, but still make for interesting reading about the virtual goods industry. Chris Anderson's Counterintuitive Rules For Charging For Media OnlineThe editor-in-chief of Wired discusses the business potential [...]

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How LiveGamer Plans To Rehabilitate RMT

By On June 10, 2009 · Leave a Comment

LiveGamer CEO Andy Schneider describes his company as an attempt "to solve what had become a $2 billion problem in the virtual economy." He continued: "There was a massive amount of activity, mostly in the MMO space but not limited there, that was the illicit buying and selling of virtual goods for real money on [...]

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