Comments on: You Don’t Own Your Character or Items http://www.hartsman.com/2008/04/04/you-dont-own-your-character-or-items/ Thoughts on MMOs, gaming, social spaces, development, and whatever else interests me in a day. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:24:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Richard Bartle http://www.hartsman.com/2008/04/04/you-dont-own-your-character-or-items/#comment-583 Richard Bartle Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:05:38 +0000 http://www.hartsman.com/2008/04/04/you-dont-own-your-character-or-items/#comment-583 Babs>the last thing I can see the I.R.S. doing is tracking the real-world value of Stalwart Leggings of Wrath That's right, they'd instruct the developers to do it for them. Richard Babs>the last thing I can see the I.R.S. doing is tracking the real-world value of Stalwart Leggings of Wrath

That’s right, they’d instruct the developers to do it for them.

Richard

]]> By: Babs http://www.hartsman.com/2008/04/04/you-dont-own-your-character-or-items/#comment-575 Babs Sun, 06 Apr 2008 08:31:12 +0000 http://www.hartsman.com/2008/04/04/you-dont-own-your-character-or-items/#comment-575 Interesting idea that it could go that far, but I don't believe it ever will. One would have to prove ownership first; customers are not owners no matter how much they wish they were. And the last thing I can see the I.R.S. doing is tracking the real-world value of Stalwart Leggings of Wrath, game by game, server by server, weekend by weekend. They have enough trouble keeping things straight at the SEC. Interesting idea that it could go that far, but I don’t believe it ever will. One would have to prove ownership first; customers are not owners no matter how much they wish they were. And the last thing I can see the I.R.S. doing is tracking the real-world value of Stalwart Leggings of Wrath, game by game, server by server, weekend by weekend. They have enough trouble keeping things straight at the SEC.

]]> By: Barbara http://www.hartsman.com/2008/04/04/you-dont-own-your-character-or-items/#comment-574 Barbara Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:50:18 +0000 http://www.hartsman.com/2008/04/04/you-dont-own-your-character-or-items/#comment-574 As a player, I just don't want to have to pay taxes on the epic weapon I just finished questing for. As a player, I just don’t want to have to pay taxes on the epic weapon I just finished questing for.

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