Pop law abounds in The Lawbringer, your weekly dose of WoW, the law, video games and the MMO genre. Mathew McCurley takes you through the world running parallel to the games we love and enjoy, full of rules, regulations, pitfalls and traps. How about you hang out with us as we discuss some of the more esoteric aspects of the games we love to play?

Oh my, look at the time. Mailbag-o’clock already? That means we have questions to answer! If you’d like to send me a question for The Lawbringer, point a message from your email client of choice to mat@wowinsider.com with something having to do with Lawbringer in the title and ask away. This week, we’ve got some fun questions to go through.

Our first email comes from Lee, who wants to know if the Diablo 3 currency trading on the real-money Auction House could ever be big enough for a foreign currency exchange-type of marketplace for Diablo gold.

Lee asked:

You’ve talked at length about gold farming and the repercussion of gold farming in mmos. Much of it is related to currency trading. You’ve pointed out that Diablo’s new model of selling cash on the auction house will eliminate gold farming and selling as we know it by creating gold to blizzard dollar currency exchange. Do you think we’ll see the development of Forex style black box trading, using a Trading API add-on most likely?Continue reading The Lawbringer: Mailbag 5.0Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, The LawbringerThe Lawbringer: Mailbag 5.0 originally appeared on WoW Insider on Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
Pop law abounds in The Lawbringer, your weekly dose of WoW, the law, video games and the MMO genre. Mathew McCurley takes you through the world running parallel to the games we love and enjoy, full of rules, regulations, pitfalls and traps. How about you hang out with us as we discuss some of the more esoteric aspects of the games we love to play?

Oh my, look at the time. Mailbag-o’clock already? That means we have questions to answer! If you’d like to send me a question for The Lawbringer, point a message from your email client of choice to mat@wowinsider.com with something having to do with Lawbringer in the title and ask away. This week, we’ve got some fun questions to go through.

Our first email comes from Lee, who wants to know if the Diablo 3 currency trading on the real-money Auction House could ever be big enough for a foreign currency exchange-type of marketplace for Diablo gold.

Lee asked:

You’ve talked at length about gold farming and the repercussion of gold farming in mmos. Much of it is related to currency trading. You’ve pointed out that Diablo’s new model of selling cash on the auction house will eliminate gold farming and selling as we know it by creating gold to blizzard dollar currency exchange. Do you think we’ll see the development of Forex style black box trading, using a Trading API add-on most likely?Continue reading The Lawbringer: Mailbag 5.0Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, The LawbringerThe Lawbringer: Mailbag 5.0 originally appeared on WoW Insider on Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments