Blizzard, It’s Time to Start Selling Gold
The SOE Exchange handled a total of $1.87 million worth of transactions in its first year of operation. If it can do this for Everquest II, imagine what Blizzard could do with a similar service? $1.00 an item, $1.00 for cash, $10.00 for a character. Also, it’s massively reduced SOE’s customer service headaches.
Check out Raph Koster’s writeup on the whitepaper, which has all the links you could need. So what do you think– would people play on a “Blizzard Exchange enabled server”? I thought the idea would be a flop for SOE, but clearly I was wrong.
February 23rd, 2007 at 9:49 pm
I might play on such a server just to turn wow gold into real money. Although I wonder what effect the external exchange rate would have on the in-game economy (effectively, would use of the actual auction house diminish or increase? Would prices be inflated because money was spread more evenly?)
Primarily, I’d be curious to know roughly what my “salary” would be for all the effort I’ve put into my various buy-low sell-high schemes.