Archive for 'Currency Traders and Gold Farmers'
Item Farming is Big Big Business. Is it Good for the Game too?
We know about the dealers in rare pets and cannons on tso, and we know that some dealers make a pretty penny at it, but what of games with lots of players like Lineage (with over a million subscribers)? Well, a recent article in Newsweek International, puts the revenue generated by sales of game objects [...]
Full StoryBig Mick Permanently Banned from Stratics!
Well, the tale of Stratics keeps writing itself, and just when u think the plot couldn’t get any thicker, well, it gets thicker! Just days after opening his own chat board as an alternative to Stratics, Mick Lite has been banned from Stratics for having a link to his own board in his bio. You [...]
Full StorySOE vs Big Mick
Mick Lite and his OnlineGameBucks site just can’t stay out of the news lately. No sooner does he reward his 10,000th customer with 500K extra free simoleans in the hardcore city of Dragon’s Cove, than Sony Online Entertainment tries to bust a cap in his ass over his sale of time cards and CD Keys [...]
Full StoryGaming Open Market Hacked Again
GOM strike price. Hmm, Lindens need to do something about the deflation. As Dan Hunter has reported on Terra Nova, the Linden dollar/US dollar money exchange, Gaming Open Market, has been hacked again. Thankfully, the Lindens are working with Jamie Hale (aka Zeppi Schlegel) to rectify the situation. Obviously we are going to see a [...]
Full StoryTo the Editor: Top Simolean Dealer Delivers Low Blows
In reference to the story in the Second Life Herald about Mick?s Online Game Bucks site evaluating other simolean dealers. Mick?s decision to judge his competition is a low thing to do. I could understamd if he was maybe just listing the competition, but rating them (claiming he used them under an anonymous name when [...]
Full StoryGavel Falls on Jessie Land Auctions: Land goes for gazzilions!
The auctioning of land confiscated from the permanently banned WWIIOLFalconBK Hanks is complete, and pretty clearly Falcon lost some serious assets. The plots sold in US dollars went for a total of $324 US. The plots sold in Lindens went for a total of L 27,149 ? equivalent to $152 US at current GOM strike [...]
Full StorySir/Ian leaves TSO
Sir may only be 16 in r/l, but he has cast a long shadow over events in alphaville over the past year. He has been a simolean dealer, a temporary accounts broker, and a dealer of cannons and other rares. He was the PR officer for the Alphaville Government during the elections, a past reporter [...]
Full StoryJeff Brown Spouts off again! You gamers are wasting your time.
EA’s Vice President for Corporate Communications, addressing the Edinburgh International Games Festival Well, Mr. Uber-foot-in-mouth has outdone himself. This time, EA’s Vice President for Corporate Communications Jeff Brown popped off at a gamers conference in Scottland, saying that gamers would be better off going out and mowing the lawn than … did he say play [...]
Full StoryCoolness: GOM’s virtual ATM machines in SL
So there I was in Club Elite, rapping with one of those fine Club Elite Escorts about her services. I was just thinking, you know, maybe we could play a nice game of Spades or rap about theology in the Club Elite VIP rooms like the escorts do in There ::cough cough::. But I was [...]
Full StoryJaqueline Richelieu plans investment bank/stock exchange in SL
In this very important interview with Ren Reynolds on Terra Nova, Second Lifer Jacqueline Richelieu discusses her plans for an in world investment bank, with an eye to taking public some of SL’s more successful businesses, and also a stock exchange for trading shares of the firms once public. Mechanics of the enforcement mechanisms are [...]
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