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[Javenri]

The bottom line is this: there are some games that you can't avoid having money transactions between players since they are based on player driven economy. In MWO this has been avoided so far with a great success. If PGI introduces auction houses, it also introduces money transactions from player to player (and RMT along with that). Let me give you a glimpse of the future in this case.
-RMT companies will start a few thousand accounts, since they cost nothing
-They will make a really simple program that launces a mech in game and it will remain there without fighting for farming reasons
-Multiple accounts, mutliple mechs, multiple games, etc. They may even form groups to that goal (the tools for that exist)
-In less than a month most games will have more than half the mechs in a game consisting of inactive farmers. Kiss solo (and maybe group) games goodbye.

I guess you do realize that no company can take measures against that.

[headbasher]

Yea uh no most games like this do NOT have auction houses. Not sure where you got that idea,