Live Gamer-the notable publisher-supported player-to-player real money trading site-has announced a "Treats for Trading Around the World" promotion within GoPets, created specifically to "introduce and educate the casual gamer about player-to-player RMT."
Worlds in Motion decided to talk to the company's CEO, Andrew Schneider, to discuss the concepts of player-to-player trading, its potential, and the reason for running the promotion.
Eric Bethke offers a very rapid review of the history of virtual goods and social media as applied to the virtual gaming space, that leads to understanding how these past trend lines will predict the future direction of social gaming. The speaker formally created and ran GoPets a virtual world featuring People, Pets and Gaming, and last year joined Zynga the world's leader in Social Gaming. Applying experience from being based in Asia for 6 years and the intense learning from Korea Erik Bethke will sketch out some likely future directions for the social gaming industry.
Erik Bethke currently the Director of Product on Mafia Wars – where millions of people rob, steal, and murder on their way to gaining power in the world's largest crime MMO.
