Referenced in Welcome to the NHK, as one of the protagonist's failed money-making schemes.A rare but growing few have built their worlds entirely around player-to-player RMT where the company makes money by taking a cut as a transaction fee, or even open content creation to players so aspiring artists and technicians can sell their work on the open market, thus producing a Player-Generated Economy.Ĭontrast Allegedly Free Game, which is when the game advertises itself as free but requires you to pay money to unlock content, and Microtransactions, the sanctioned equivalent.

Some game operators may offer a legitimate channel for players to buy and sell virtual items from each other in order to stem some of the more negative elements of restricting such trade to the black market such as spam, fraud and cheating by use of automated bot.

A common plague of MMORPGs, and the reason why good ways of making money in-game are often nerfed by the publisher after some time.

The purchase or sale of online game equipment, currency, or even powerleveling services for real money to a third party without the involvement of, and in the majority of cases against the wishes of, the game's publisher (which is the difference between this and Bribing Your Way to Victory).

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