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A Brave New World // Interview
Q: Looking back on the past year and ahead to the rest of 2009, what do you think of the MMO landscape at the moment? Kerry Fraser-Robinson : I'm quite enthused really. Having been an MMO evangelist since I was 13, I've been saying to everyone that would listen that MMOs or Virtual Worlds are ...
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Red Bedlam Boss Says Gold Farming “Inevitable”
Rock, Paper, Shotgun — ... The comments were part of a wide-ranging interview over at GI.biz, in which Fraser-Robinson slammed the idea that gold trading could be forced out of virtual worlds. More thoughts on this issue after the jump. ...

RMT “Inevitable”? Not So Fast…
Broken Toys — ... , gives an interview where he makes controversial statements to gain publicity on blogsexhorts game developers who dislike gold farming to suck up and deal with it. ...

Time To Embrace Gold Selling?
Age of Conan Vault - The Ultimate Resource — ... from somebody else who is gold farming." "If you don't build that into your system then you're not going to be able to compete with the gold farmers and that will ruin your in-game economy, which will in turn ruin your game. At the very least having the recognition that virtual economics is a discipline and is a very important integral part to being a virtual world," he added. Eeep, I feel so confused and alone right now. You can read the full interview with Kerry Fraser-Robinson here . -- ...

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