Vanguard To Add RMT

Sony Online Entertainment's MMO, Vanguard, is to have Real Money Trading added for its players using the same system as the other MMO owned by SoE, EverQuest 2.

Live Gamer has partnered with SoE to provide players with a secure way to trade virtual items including in-game currency, characters and items. As with many MMOs, the game is currently plagued with third party sites advertising currency for sale and other services such as power leveling and account sales.

[Malfurion]

Another one bites the dust...

[Montrealien]

This may be off topic. But this is one of the few MMO`s I actually enjoyed besides WoW in the last few years, it is truly a great fantasy MMO for the Hardcore bunch, much more demanding then WoW.

If it takes RmT to keep this gem up so be it, people that play Vanguard are a dedicated bunch and to actually be able to use RMT to you advantage in this game you really need to be at endgame, and if you got there, imho, you deserve it.

[Mikerra17]

in my opinion is the best MMO ever made, but since it had a bad launch and people left before it got a good chance, the game just never picked up

[Maticus]

Give it time. As LotRO and EVE have proven, some MMOs just take a while to get going. If it's good, people will come to it.

[Leord]

If this turns out alright, I wonder if Blizzard would consider doing it for WoW?

[Maticus]

Nah, Blizz will never do it. They've spoken out against it too often.

[Fyzzu]

Oh, God. I'm going to be really interested to see how this works but I can't help but fear it's going to be a disaster. Still, if it actually works, maybe it'll help stem the goldsellers in other games - although they'll probably just lower their prices...

[Dorjan]

If you can't beat them, join them eh?

[AndyA]

At least it'll get rid of those annoying ads.

[Maticus]

That's just it, I don't think it will - if it's the in-game spamming you're on about. As someone else said, the gold sellers will just lower their prices and carry on selling as normal.

[thetamer]

What the hell is going on in the world? I thought RMT was a bad thing!

[Shortstop]

It is, since it de-levels the playing field based on how much money you're willing to spend of real money. Gaming is supposed to be about getting away from real life things (ie. how much money you have).

But companies need to make money and Sony consistently has been showing, they like to make their money based off of content downloads as opposed to monthly fees. It works in some cases brilliantly (PSN for example), but for MMOs it's the worst thing you can do.

MMOs simply require monthly fees to truly function as a game, and to think otherwise, is well, stupid. RMT in MMOs is criminal (in the game world, not the real world).