All these rationalizations for buying and selling in-game items makes me sick. You are all missing the whole fucking point of a video game. Deny all you want, but video games boil down to escaping reality in some fashion. When people trade in-game crap for real life currency, guess what - real life economic standings are brought right back into the picture. If I wanted to be invovled in a setting where US dollars matter, I wouldn't be playing a video game, I'd play real life! No, life isn't fair, but you sure as hell don't make video games that way too.