Ever since the Everquest game came out in March 16, 1999, people on the game were expanding upon particle applications for assimilating the platinum money from the game and turning it into real, cold, hard cash, or by using their account as a work station and selling or trading their powered up character for real world goods. The marketing team for most players have seen past the fictional gold and platinum of the game and glared at the real cash prize, because it seems as if the developers have taken some pages out of the players books in Everquet 2.
A while back ago the developers of Everquest developers forbid the auction of real money being changed for gold, Platinum and other EQ goods, and even asked eBay if they would stop listing or allowing these auctions on their site. With specialized websites dedicated to these activities it was inevitable that Everquest 2 would have to address the situation themselves in a different manner. In the year of 2005 in the month of June, Sony Online Entertainment produced station exchange to ever quest 2. Station Exchange is an official auction system, on certain designated servers it allows real money to be transferred for in-game platinum and gold, items or characters, they still discourage buying in game material for real cash on any other forum besides the one that Sony Online Entertainment provides.
Another way of making money is through partnership, or advertising. For the millions of players playing Everquest in February 2005 a special treat was given for there at work playing efforts, the game allowed players to place orders for pizza delivery from with the game, with simply typing in the command “/pizza”. No, you couldn’t use your platinum or gold for the pie but you could have a meal at the push of a button. The promotion has since ended but generated lots of press and question for different possibilities for the future.
Sometimes making money is through association. In Everquest 2 the developers decided to put Hollywood actors and actresses, for the voice over’s for many of the characters in the game. These leading names were none other than Heather Graham, (Boogie Nights), Christopher Lee, (Lord of the Rings), Wil Wheaton,(Stand by Me), and Danica McKellar,(Wonder Years). SOE in October 2004 claimed that there 130 hours of spoken dialog recorded by 1,700 voice actors.
Whether you want to save up your gold and platinum for your own use or you want to sell it to the highest bidder it doesn’t matter, because the company you love playing for will take care of you as well as take your money, so do the same I say.
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