New MMO “The Agency” Will Not Have Microtransactions. Hurray!
The new MMO coming out of Sony Online Entertainment will not have a microtransaction system built in, it has been confirmed in an interview with Eurogamer.
Last month, SOE announced that they had struck a deal with Live Gamer to provide The Agency with a “real money trading service”, sparking talk of microtransactions being built into the game.
Thankfully, Hal Milton, lead designer of the game has ushered these reassuring words:
I want to make this very clear, this is not a microtransaction system within The Agency to allow players to buy weapons, outfits, or operatives to be effective within the game world. That’s something that we’re absolutely not planning on doing.
The payment system will instead be used to allow player-to-player auction based transfers of money to pay for in-game items, similar to the system used in Everquest II. Which is nice.
MMOs, the single most addictive thing on this fine Earth, combined with microtransactions, do cause me to start to worry for my fellow gamer. It’s good to know that in this instance, my worries were misplaced.
Source: Eurogamer
(Thanks Aerox!)
