Station Cash Interview

Ten Ton Hammer has whipped up a quick little interview with SOE president John Smedley about their newly launched Station Cash service.

Ten Ton Hammer: Having a partial items for cash and subscription model is a little outside the ordinary for MMOGs. What caused SOE to go in such a radical direction?

John Smedley: “Over time we want Station Cash to be used for a lot of cool stuff (including subscriptions at some point). That will include things like getting a photo of your guild physically mailed to you, or a t-shirt of your character. We want it to be our currency across all our games. It really isn’t a radical change in direction from our perspective. EQ and EQ 2 are not going to switch to being microtransaction based games. We’re just adding some additional cool things players can do.”