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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Virtual Goods Wrap-Up For The Week Of May 8

By On May 8, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Welcome to the Virtual Goods News Wrap-Up for the week of May 8, 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. Tweet

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Virtual Goods Wrap-Up For The Week Of April 10

By On April 10, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Welcome to the Virtual Goods News Wrap-Up for the week of April 10, 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. Bioware's Founders Envision Dragon Age Origins As Dark Heroic Fantasy Universe An early look at the [...]

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LiveGamer Goes Live In Vanguard Next Week; Devs Expect Limited Change

By On April 9, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The addition of LiveGamer into Sony Online Entertainment's subscription MMORPG Vanguard: Saga of Heroes is all but complete according to the game's Lead Designer, Salin Grant. The controversial service is currently in open beta and SOE PR is working on documentation to help Vanguard players use and understand LiveGamer once it's activated. "I don't really [...]

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Square-Enix Promoting FFXI Security Tokens With Virtual Goods

By On April 6, 2009 · 1 Comment

Tomorrow Square-Enix will begin selling security tokens for use with its subscription-based MMORPG, Final Fantasy XI. To promote the sale of the $9.99 token, Square-Enix is offering a unique virtual good called the "Mog Satchel" that adds up to 80 extra slots to the inventory of each character tethered to the account using the token. [...]

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Virtual Goods Wrap-Up For The Week Of April 3

By On April 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Welcome to the Virtual Goods News Wrap-Up for the week of April 3, 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. Changyou Closes Up 25% In Strongest Debut In YearWith shares up 25% after a single day's [...]

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Over One Million Gold Farmers In China, 70% In World of Warcraft

By On March 25, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Grey market RMT service SwagVault today disclosed several key details of the market's operations, including the fact that over one million Chinese citizens are employed in gold farming in a variety of different MMORPGs in China, through an interview with Eurogamer.  Of all those MMORPGs, SwagVault identifies Blizzard's World of Warcraft as driving 70% of [...]

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Over One Million Gold Farmers In China, 70% In World of Warcraft

By On March 25, 2009 · 1 Comment

Grey market RMT service SwagVault today disclosed several key details of the market's operations, including the fact that over one million Chinese citizens are employed in gold farming in a variety of different MMORPGs in China, through an interview with Eurogamer.  Of all those MMORPGs, SwagVault identifies Blizzard's World of Warcraft as driving 70% of [...]

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UPDATED: Virtual Goods Wrap-Up For The Week Of March 20

By On March 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Welcome to the Virtual Goods News Wrap-Up for the week of March 20, 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. Chinese Portal Sohu's Gaming Division Files For $120 Million IPOChangyou.com has filed to raise up to [...]

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NHN USA Parters With LiveGamer For Player-To-Player Trading

By On March 18, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Today NHN USA announced that it would partner with LiveGamer to bring secondary market trading to online games NHN USA operates through its Ijji games portal. LiveGamer is a publisher-supported player-to-player exchange system that operates within game EULAs and enables safe and secure trading of virtual currency, virtual goods, and even entire accounts for real [...]

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