And it’s also a blooming “industry,” it appears. There are tons of websites specialized in selling gold for MMO games and apparently, according to an Eurogamer report, 30% of the players [refer purchasing in-game gold with real cash. And in an industry that has an estimated worth of $2 billion, you can imagine how huge these numbers really are!
“In my opinion, the industry would be better served if publishers would recognize that lots of gamers — I’ve heard it’s 30 percent of the player base — like the benefits of RMT, and work with credible companies and allow it to happen,” said WoW Gold expert Extreme Gamer to Eurogamer.
This could be a way of getting yourself out of the economic crisis on one hand, but on the other, you might have problems if you start selling (or purchasing) in-game gold and you get caught. Usually companies don’t take that too lightly.