In 2006 IGE bought the large MMO site Allakhazam to many gamers dismay. In 2007 the media division of IGE (Affinity Media) split from the RMT division. Well sort-of... a lot of ties are still there especially if you "follow the money" and look at some of the investors who have shared interests.
However, it makes Allakhazam's recent protest (titled Station Crap) over the SOE Station Cash system which has been experiencing overwhelming demand a bit comical. We agree that the way SOE just "plopped" RMT into the game without even talking to the community is a bit sly and maybe a reason for protest. It reminds me of whenever Facebook changes a feature on their site, and there are mass user protests, Facebook makes a small change to accommodate them (or ignores them) and then people forget about it.
However, the fact that Allakhazam has been owned by a private RMT company (who loses a great deal of market share if a monopoly "dev sponosred" RMT program is put into place) and then protests official RMT is a bit funny. This probably wasn't the authors intent, I just found it a bit ironic.
Yes, it is a little bit ironic. Frankly, I don't get it. If there's bigwigs that own big stock in each side of the company, they ought to get the company to help the company instead of well... having a left hand and a right hand on a giant that can't do anything.
A midget that knows how to coordinate could get things done better than a giant that can't use both hands to get the job done. Proceed directly to denial, do not pass payday, do not collect earnings. Your Monopoly has failed!
And of course I e-mailed Allakhazam for a comment and got no response.
I pointed this out on the forum discussing the article... and it got deleted. I think that says it all.
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