happydolphin said:
The auction house is set up. People start buying ($), selling($), trading points & virtual assets (trophies, costumes, in-game items) as part of a trading system. This creates a virtual economy (you played Diablo II, you should know about the SoJ). Suddenly you mix money and virtual points (similar to LoL's Riot points) and things get a monetary value. Sony (much like Blizzard with DII) can then inject virtual assets out of thin air and make money, since they would be the only ones to exchange virtual assets (out) to money (in). This can easily leed to a creepy money-making scheme (slippery slope). |
Oh I totally agree on that part. The auction on its own, is a great thing, something I'd like to have.
Apart from arguing how Sony has (and I'm sorry but this is really tin hat territory) to still be competitive to function in an auction environment, please explain how this is like DRM.
The one facet of your argument that you're still not conveying is how they are the same. In this post you only explained the auction, and your fears on what happens with auctions (which still isn't even confirmed how it will work), and forgot to answer my question right above of "How is bolded like italicized".
