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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land One would have thought the lawsuit filed last May by Florida resident and WoW player Antonio Hernandez against gold farming juggernaut IGE would have disappeared long before now, but it’s still alive and well. Despite IGE’s claims that their U.S. operation is no longer involved in the virtual gold business, Hernandez’s attorney C. Richard Newsome believes the pertinent issues still need to be addressed. “The real significance of this case is, ‘What are the rights of the [virtual world]community members when they go online?’”
Newsome argues that players entering the game agree that they “may not sell items for ‘real’ money or otherwise exchange items for value outside of the [virtual world] .” The only problem here is that the same agreement recognises that the player has no ownership or property rights in the game.
Internet Gaming Entertainment (IGE) is a virtual property company that’s found itself in some hot water (or its founder has found himself in hot water, at least) – Debonneville v. Pierce was filed last summer in California alleging all sorts of shady business dealings on the part of the founder, Brock Pierce. This wouldn’t be interesting if documents relating to the suit hadn’t surfaced last week, which give an insider’s look at the world of RMT companies (and a lot of drama to boot). There have been countersuits filed, and everything is scheduled to go to trial in May of this year. In the meantime, you can’t make the contents of the original complaint up:
