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Originally Posted by mefdinkins
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However, trading currency or items from other games, which cannot be acquired using real life money...
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You can easily buy items in other MMO's using real money, and sell them for real money. Obviously people attempt to do that here but that too is against the rules and those who engage in it can be punished by server staff. The server staff don't need to also worry about 'laundering' via other games they have no control over.
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Originally Posted by mefdinkins
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If you were to say that there is a real life cost to acquire these items that can’t be ‘bought’ directly with cash, for instance that you pay indirectly via monthly subscription fees, and there isn’t such a 'cost' in P1999. I would counter there is a ‘cost’, that could be equated to a U.S. dollar amount, to play any game. Playing P1999 includes the overhead costs of owning and maintaining a computer, the cost of internet access, and the opportunity costs of choosing to play versus working.
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This is first and foremost a bad argument, and secondly rendered moot due to the main issue that stuff from every other game can be turned into real money, and the server staff has no ability to police those games.