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Originally Posted by Elderan
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Until ebay started removing those auctions and banned them due to sony contacting them and forcing them to. That is when playersauction.com was born.
Sony did not care about the rmt as much as the problems it caused them from the CS department and people getting ripped off. That is where their main problem with it came.
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The point was to illustrate that RMTing has been around since the birth of the game in 1999, regardless of Sony officially supporting it or not. As you said, PlayerAuctions and a few other sites popped right up in the wake of Ebay complying with Sony's request to pull those auctions (they were never "forced" fyi). Never heard of Sony going after any others after the Ebay incident.
Their viewpoint was that the sales encouraged cheating, created animosity amongst the community and provided an avenue for scammers to sucker people. I'd venture to guess that having an employee creating items on the side to sell for RL cash didn't help either.
Seems logical that Rogean and Co. hold the same opinion.