Ancient Hittite Play Stations?
Charlemagne's Game Cube?
The first Tekken?
DO DO
This is honestly too bad for those who enjoy the online gaming scene. This pretty much takes it from a game to a job. You could argue that it already was a job before ;) but these addicts (that is what they are) will be getting paid for it. Of course we don't need to go into how this basically destroys the in game economy and game play. I think this is a bad movie on Sony's part. Yeah this is already going on in the underground markets, and sony is just getting a slice of the pie. In the end I think they'll loose more gamers then they keep.
The worst part of this will occur when Sony allows sales of items or cash out of thin air. That is to say, instead of buying things from other people that they've worked hard (well, not really worked hard, just spent a lot of time in the game hitting buttons), they allow people to buy what they want directly from Sony. That ought to mess up the whole game economy, and crowd higher level zones...
Funny
SOE couldn't program it's way out of the loss of it's customer base, now they are jumping on the Ebay bandwagon.
Instead of doing something this stupid they should just hire quality people, but... they won't because they are stupid.
Pong of the Gods.