Somewhat surprising, Sony is starting their own virtual goods for real money service as Station Exchange. It’s only for EverQuest II for the time being.
PS. As an aside, this site has auctions for H?jhuset, the children’s avatar chat I have been working on/for during the past few years. The currency for auctions are “monetter”, the in-game currency unit, but another price list values all objects in the world in the number of plant objects that they are worth. There are a lot of plants in the world.
This is the kind of stuff that the users are just excellent at figuring out, I would certainly never have come up with it.
This is a news tip concerning VIRTUAL CURRENCY.
An independent and non-proft research report:
MMORPGs(Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games) Virtual Currency Price Trend Charts:First Half 2005
Game Money Research
To run on from the previous post on in-game to real-world exchange rates I’d like to note this site: http://www.eyeonmogs.com/ which provides a kind of shopping search engine for the virtual market.
The number of providers is 9 at the moment – but is growing all the time. Even at 9 its higher then any of the other sites i’ve found (all 2 of them).
And best of all its not just a list of IGE companies! There are others here to :)