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Any MMORPG's that let you sell in-game items for real world money?
hopefades
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Are there any MMORPG's that let you sell in-game items for real world money around? Lik a WoW auction house in-game that takes real $
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I will assume you're asking about legitimate buying/selling of ingame items....
EQ2 has an exchange server where you can buy/sell items for real-world cash. You can only do this on that particular server though. Some games offer special goodies that can only be bought with cash, no way to earn them ingame.
UNfortunatly there is (and seemingly always will be ) a MMORPG black market. This market isnt as 'black' as ones in real world, in fact some players think its fashionable in a "HaH! look at me, Im bad and dangerous...I just bought 300 gold on ebay" kind of way.
However, aside from Eq, I know that Second Life also allows significan transfer of RL $$$ to in game currency and vis versa
Torrential
Torrential: DAOC (Pendragon)
Awned: World of Warcraft (Lothar)
Torren: Warhammer Online (Praag)
Everquest 2 has two (I think two) 'Exchange' servers where you can post Items and Gold for sale for RL$
The whole transaction is handled via SoE and is secure. They do, of course, take a cut of the RL$ sale.
Good Hunting
or if your looking for a game that allows you to trade ingame currency for cold hard cash there is http://www.entropiauniverse.com/index.var
Answered this in the thread you already posted it in, but here it goes again:
Try EQ2 They have what is called Exchange Servers. On those servers you can do exactly that and it is perfectly legal. Here is a link to that http://eq2.stationexchange.com/ and you can read all the details about it http://stationexchange.station.sony.com/
Hope that helps.
Fear not fanbois, we are not trolls, let's take off your tin foil hat and learn what VAPORWARE is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware
"Vaporware is a term used to describe a software or hardware product that is announced by a developer well in advance of release, but which then fails to emerge after having well exceeded the period of development time that was initially claimed or would normally be expected for the development cycle of a similar product."
Project Entropia, now aka Entropia Universe (see it on mmorpg.com) started with the premise of "exchanging" money from our world to the game world and vice-versa like you would move currency between countries in real life. You can actually earn money in-game and transfer it to real money, minus a fee. Of course, the way the exchange rate works you would have to play for hours just to make $1 US, but if you want a game that is free to play and lets you spend real money to gear up your character, then that's what Entropia was made for. But then, it's not that good of a game lol.
Many of the games in the games list of mmorpg.com have "micro" in the payment column. Most of those are free to play, but require you to buy items with real money to get the good gear. That seems to be a common format with the asian games.
Yeah, EQ2 has the exchange server as others have mentioned. Just be aware that they are for American citizens only (so far). The legal stuff to allow such servers internationally are quite complicated I heard.