Media Coverage of EA’s Removal of 15 Trillion From UO
July 10th, 2006 by Sherri the MouseA couple of websites have picked up the story of EA removing 15 trillion in gold pieces from UO, along with banning 180 accounts. This might help spread the word - some players who might have given the fraud problems as one of their reasons for leaving UO in the past may return. It also alleviates (if only for a few days), those clamoring about EA not doing anything about the exploiters. A couple of the sites mention the eBay connection.
Gamespot News: The world of Ultima Online just got a little poorer. Electronic Arts has announced the permanent removal of roughly 15 trillion gold from the game’s economy and the termination of more than 180 user accounts in connection with the funds, which it referred to as “dirty money”….A quick survey of eBay found Ultima Online gold sellers typically asking for between $3 and $4 per million gold pieces, with the few auctions that actually had bids on them running closer to $1 per million gold pieces. Even at the low end of that range, the real-world value of the deleted gold would be about $15 million, and possibly closer to the $60 million some online sellers would ask for it.
Gamasutra - mentions the news of the Mythic acquisition.h
