I didn't believe it but it's true...

[avevale_intelligencer]

People are selling EVE Online money on Ebay.

You send them real money--I've seen up to a hundred quid quoted--and in return they send you Monopoly money (in vast quantities, true, but a hundred million nothings is still nothing).

James Branch Cabell was right, and Nyronds are truly redundant.

Comments

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Paying people to play games for you has been around for centuries -- what else is professional football and other sports? The difference with this is that after someone else has got the points / tokens / money you need you then take over and play it yourself. I don't have the time to play games (I don't have enough time to do the other things I want to do), but if I did I wouldn't want to spend a year or whatever working up to the point where I could do something interesting if I could cut that out with cash..

[armb.livejournal.com]

You can buy muscle by taking steroids instead of training for years. You can buy better oxygen capacity by paying someone to extract some of your blood and reinject it immediately before a competition instead of training at altitude for years.
(Sports like F1 racing allow/require you to spend money on performance in different ways, but not as a shortcut for doing things the legal way.)