Anshe to make cross-world financial exchange

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The press release is here.

At ACS we are convinced that once capital is flowing freely, people, goods and services will follow and eventually we will see incentive and pressure for the emergence of open tools and standards. It is our vision that one day even traveling across virtual worlds and taking your belongings with you should become as easy as a mouseclick.

I don’t share the optimism that moving currency back and forth will drive open standards on this front… but it is kinda breathtaking to see the huge difference in core assumptions about what virtual worlds are for:

We believe that allowing residents in a virtual world, no matter which one they have chosen to live in, to easily diversify their portfolio of virtual investments…

  5 Responses to “Anshe to make cross-world financial exchange”

  1. Ross Smith says:
    May 21, 2007 at 7:08 pm

    Short version: Hey, let’s compete with IGE!

  2. External News says:
    May 21, 2007 at 11:31 pm

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  3. Amaranthar says:
    May 22, 2007 at 6:11 am

    It won’t be long now untill we have MMOney and Master E-Cards. Maybe even a new virtual nation with a seat at the UN, where E-Nuke expansion will be the big topic. Big Oil will be replaced by Big Virtual. The future is bleak.

    I need some apple pie, then I can put my smiley face on.

  4. corporate samurai : virtual world exchange says:
    May 22, 2007 at 9:26 am

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  5. moo says:
    May 22, 2007 at 3:16 pm

    Not to mention MMOtaxes. Sometimes I think greed is a better predictor of human behaviour than just about any other one trait.

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