Verigame Beta | Secondary Market Reviews and Ratings — site uses mystery shoppers (just like in real life!) and user reviews written by actual customers (just like in real life!) to review virtual currency vendors. Six farmers vendors reviewed so far, but isn’t that enough? How much gold do you think you need?
The beta stress test of Dungeons & Dragons® Online: Stormreach™ opens with limited play hours for Fileplanet subscribers. Those bastards never sent me a beta invite. Foolish mortals!
Jiffy, indentured blog servant, passed along this link to a kuro5hin story about an online gamer willing to give it all away for the love of his virtual woman, Suzy. (also via Joystiq.) It’s the Twinkie defense: Suzy was looking for validation, Suzy has incredibly low self-esteem, Suzy is not really happy about anything in her life, bla bla, damn that Suzy. The confession and almost-candor are engaging, but I’m not seeing how Suzy has much responsibility here. (Joystiq is correct that this situation is NOT so uncommon. Have a similar thing in my guild right now. More later when it blows up in everyone’s faces. I hope to get screenshots.)