With delisting proactively bid for the property of virtual worlds and online games, eBay can not force the player effective participation in such Trades in the hands of third major operations, buy and sell virtual goods.
Given the fact that a substantial portion of several hundreds of millions of dollars of business was now up on eBay, the move portends a significant shift controls, the market for virtual products.
eBay confirmed Monday the decision on the ban on auctions for drawing, currency, weapons, clothes, books and online games like World of Warcraft, City of Heroes and many others. The move was for the first time on Slashdot reported.The prohibition does not affect the virtual world Second Life.
In most cases, the publisher of online games in its Terms of Service of the alleged banning of a real quality / crafts (RMTs), in which people buy and sell online games’ virtual assets for for real money. Players, against such regulations may be prohibited.
But since the auction eBay has dominated the market for RMTs, there is little question that the winners in the short term in the latter circumstance such as Internet Gaming Entertainment pages the world, controlling one third.
Admittedly, there is no generally agreed value for the RMT market, it is expected that is worth somewhere between $ 250 million and $ 880 million per year, in the opinion of experts.
eBay movement is “a blessing for sites such as IPI,” said Julian Dibbell, author of Play Money: Or How I Quit My Day Struck it Rich and work in Virtual Loot Farming. “She will have on the territory of a lot about themselves. “But Dibbell said, such a circumstance is” sad “because it is limited by individuals are directly market participants.