Game Economics 2

Yesterday we had a thread about the whole games and real world economy stuff, discussing how much money is being tossed around because of EverQuest players and all that fun. Well I noticed the Diabloii.net guys mention that this whole thing is coming to an abrupt stop.

(story) Everquest has joined their Verified Rights Owners program and as such any items they own property rights to will be deleted. Searching 'Everquest' on eBay just now brings up plenty of 2nd hand CDs and games but no game items so it seems, true to the policy, they're purged. Search for Diablo II items though and it's a completely different story. The EULA for DII seems to state that characters and items are the property of Blizzard, which would preclude their sale, so perhaps we will soon see Blizzard following suit by joining the VeRO group as well.