Virtual Goods News

amer's service is being allowed into Vanguard in light of our interview with John Smedley last month about virtual goods in the SOE family of titles. It's worth pointing out that in the interview, Smedley merely stated that SOE would not be selling virtual goods directly to Vanguard players for real money through SOE's StationCash service. LiveGamer is a service designed to allow players to buy and sell virtual assets in Vanguard to each other and is not part of the StationCash service.

At no point in the interview did Smedley ever promise that RMT would never come to Vanguard, though it is interesting that SOE is willing to allow players to buy and sell in-game assets for real money in games where the company otherwise feels directly selling virtual goods to users wouldn't be a good fit. This suggests that other SOE titles Smedley specified as not being candidates for StationCash service in the interview - such as Star Wars Galaxies - may very well adopt the LiveGamer RMT service in the future.