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!)

Tags: I-should-not-write-after-drinking-beer, MMO, The-Agent

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3 Comments » DMOsbon on June 14, 2008 9:14 am Hey John any beta testing going on with this title that you know of? John Kershaw on June 14, 2008 9:25 am If you head to their official site (http://theagency.station.sony.com/), load up the flash site, then click the bullet to the right of the main logo at the top, there are instructions to join the beta. No idea when the beta will start, or if it already has. DMOsbon on June 14, 2008 9:52 am Nice one John, will check that out. RSS feed for comments on this post. Comment Now Note: Commenting on Ripten does not currently require registration, however to be eligible for contests on the site, you must be a registered user. Name (required) Mail (will not be published) (required) Website Commenting Rules: No hate speech allowed. If you must argue, please debate intelligently. Comments containing selected keywords or outbound links will be put into moderation to help prevent spam. Ripten reserves the right to delete comments and ban anyone who doesn't follow the rules. Thanks. Notify me of followup comments Tired of the Goomba? Upload your own custom comment avatar.