At 12:43 AM 04/12/2002 +0100, Adam Back wrote: >To be more concrete: there are already apparently e-gold backed credit >cards. So why not Everquest virtual platinum backed credit cards for >spending your Everquest acquired wealth directly in the real world. I >would have thought Sony could have a lot of fun and gain some >interesting press from going in this direction -- blurring the line >between the VR and the real world -- rather than trying pretty much >ineffectivley and hopelessly to stop people trading virtual platinum.
I rather like the use of credit cards in Nethack, myself :-) You could do Everquest currency in e-cash. The convenience of payee-anonymous e-cash in facilitating kidnapping might fit in well... on the other hand, loan sharking probably works at least as well with "real" platinum instead of e-platinum...
