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Regardless whether developers are tolerating, battling or supporting the trade of virtual items, they will hardly be able to achieve consent among the majority of their Mabinogi Gold customers.

According to a survey by Sony among its EverQuest customers, the position for, against or neutral towards external trading is evenly split (Leupold 05/06/05). This leads to the interesting situation that one customer group would welcome the deployment of DRM to stop trade, while the other group would not.

The main argument of the trade opponents is the unfairness of players paying for desired items rather than achieving them through skills and labour.

But it is likely that more and more players will be engaged in external trade and will constitute the dominant group. According to the survey by Sony, 20 to 25 % are already involved in trading.

In South Korea, which has a mature MMORPG market with the largest penetration rate of MMORPG players worldwide, the vast majority is already in favor of trading (MacInnes et al. 2004).

He also cites research by Nick Yee, who is fast-becoming the most popular gaming-related research scientist, stating that gold-buying is done mostly by those ages 35 and older, who don't have the time to play as those younger gamers.