The MMO Gamer: To be absolutely clear, what you do is sanctioned by the publishers, and you work with Kal Online? You are not a third party, working against the wishes of the people producing the games?
Andy Schneider: Never. We only create a marketplace with the publisher's support online gold, we enter into a contractual relationship with the publisher, and the publisher has affirmatively decided to support a sanctioned RMT marketplace.
It's all player-to-player, our business model is a transaction fee. There is no concept of farming in our world, its one player selling a virtual item to another player, and we facilitate the entire transaction, and make sure that we spot fraud, or farming, and shut it down immediately.
The publisher benefits, and more importantly the end user benefits; they don't have to go to a black market outlet. They don't have to risk having their credit cards stolen, or their identities stolen, or their game accounts stolen.
They don't have to risk getting their account banned because they're in violation of the publisher's terms of services.
In our world, because of the partnership,kalonline geons and because of the publisher support, we're able to create a much better experience for all that consumer demand that's otherwise been lost to the black market.
