Unified MMORPG currency
It’s inevitable, more MMORPGs are gonna show up, more game money is gonna change hands and more poor gamers will cry to their moms.
But first, how do you change the pile of WoW gold on your hand into the same valuable amount of Star Wars Galaxies credit? Simple, it’s called US dollar.
You sell your WoW gold for so much dollars, and use the same dollars to buy however much SWG credit it can buy.
The problem is, the moment real cash is exchanged, the purist and game publishers will point their fingers at you, shed tears and look at their mommies.
Secondly, if you’ve spent 2 years effort turning filthy rich in your own game server, and by the first day of the 3rd year the game server got nuked by Iranian missiles, your filth goes down with it too.
Basically, your game master is calling shots over your game money (which you or someone else earned through blood and sweat) like your mother was treating you when you were holding coins as a 5-year old. Ok, I’m gonna stop with the mommy issue here.
The point is, your game masters can get hold of any precious sword or armor of yours coz they own the ‘land’, that’s still fair. But if he get to control your bloody and sweaty money too, its means you’ve lost all sense of control over your destiny.
So my question of the day is, what if there is a unified game currency?
One single currency to be used over every MMORPG in existence, effectively eliminating the WoW gold to USD to SWG credit.
You know this, we’ve seen this before, it’s called EURO.
Would this do the whole industry any good?
Would it bring upon new respect from the world community?
Who would and should run the show for this?
I don’t pretend the entire consequences and implications right now. But I wanna put it out here, hoping one of you would put it out to everybody else that matter.