Is the Future of MMO Gaming Really this Bleak?
We live in a society of instant gratification. A society where the traditional values of earning rewards has gone out the window. The MMO gaming industry is jumping on the instant gratification band wagon as well.
NCSoft is a publisher of online computer games and on April 16th they announced the creation of a subsidiary called NCcoin. NCcoin is a system which will allow customers of their games to use real world money to purchase virtual currency. They are not the first to implement this type of system. Sony Online Entertainment instituted “Exchange Servers” in their EverQuest 2 systems a couple of years ago.