After playing a couple dozen matches, I don’t see the longevity of this game.

This allows players who don’t buy gold with USD to buy your gold with “cash” earned by playing the game. So if you play enough, you can get anything you want without spending a dollar.

It’s also important to note that players who buy, trade, sell, either of these two currencies have nearly no way to turn it back into USD. It would be extremely hard to set up an eBay RMT business with Bang for two reasons.

1) The currency already has a set value in USD, and it would be difficult to turn a profit by undercutting that price (with the exception of selling duped money).

2) There is no trade system in the game. You cannot give people money, and the only way to trade is on the open market. Since only the top 3 offers are listed on the market, there is essentially no way to give anything for “free” in game after payment has been made outside of the world.

Hmm, true. I studied their model a bit more based on your post, and yes… maybe I judged them bit too quickly. Definitely not a station exchange

However, I still dislike the fact that apparently it’s OK to sell ingame currency for cash to other players. Tho it seems that it’s not a major problem with Y!PP, so I guess it’s no biggy.

Damn you, now I must download and check out the game. /shakes fist

And Jarnis, I believe you may be a bit confused about Bang’s micropayment system. It’s my understanding that it will work more or less identically to Y!PP’s Doubloon Exchange system; that is, you can unlock items and other nifty bits in-game by purchasing a ‘hard’ form of currency using RL cash, or you can save up ‘soft’ currency you earn from playing the game and exchange it for ‘hard’ currency and unlock the nifty bits *that* way. That’s all for beyond beta, of course. And, much like Y!PP, there are no +50 Shotguns of Slaying you can buy for $400 and subsequently pwn everyone with. In fact, the most expensive ‘hard’ currency items in Y!PP are purely luxury kit, such as mansions and self-portraits. Ha!

I think this game is going in the right direction, but it’s a couple pounds of buffalo meat short of Oregon Trail Online. Which is what I’m really waiting for.

+ it runs in a window smaller than my whole screen. Which means I can AIM and switch my tunes. Ohhhhhh, how I miss UO.

I’m even considering spending some real money to get me some more PEDs for ammo since this gun hoovers down charges like a fat kid inhaling the barbeque-sauced hotdog weiners at Izzy’s.

I blame you, Lum.

Tho I must admit that it fits the game concept infinitely better than, say, Station Exchange to EQ2. And they are honest about it upfront. So, props to the devs at least for that (and the nice game concept).