| Interesting. If they can pull off their claims, it will make EQ currency a lot more liquid. Before, if you wanted to 'cash out' of a server, you had to take a serious discount on your goods, unless you knew someone or had a serious selling history. Now, even small players can exchange small sums of currency for fair market value. For a server like FV, a system like this will create some sweeping changes. If SOE is getting some small commission % on the trades, it will probably give them inscentive to open more FV type servers, just from the increased sellling activity on those servers.
I agree with Bristlebane though, this sets a pretty bad precedence. It encourages people to subvert the natural way that that these games were made to play out. If they are using a commission, this also gives companies like SOE even more inscentive to create money sinks in games (more need for money, more buying, more commissions). | 