Over a particularly delicious egg omelet at 'Bob Evans' the subject of World of Warcraft came up with a friend of mine. He brought up an article about the government considering the possible implications of actually taxing earnings in an MMO game like World of Warcraft. Since games like Everquest, MMO's have seen currency transacation rivaling the Gross Domestic Product of small countries. Companies like IGE, unfortunatly, have a very huge prospect in this all too dismal future in online gaming since as the MMO platform groes, so does IGE.

These are some interesting articles I could come up with, but not the exact one I was looking for.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060106-5923.html
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/1302.cfm
http://www.legalaffairs.org/issues/Janu ... nfeb06.msp

Pretty wild stuff, says alot about the future of these kinds of games. Your kids may one day make more money off of farming gold than working at Burger King. That is unless they have a way to totally bar real world money transactions from online currency trading which would render this business null and void.

_________________
Retired 8/21/06
Don't click this link.

Sounds like something Jack Thompson would back...

_________________
Warlock's are not OP, maybe if you stopped running around like frightened little girls you'd be able to beat me...

I think whenever the companies say we're paying for their employees time someone should point out that the company is paying for their employees time and we're paying to get the money they have... idk

Just erase all currency from the game and put a level 29 ring that adds 1 to all skills in everywhere

_________________
[In Yarr we trust.]