Armed Hostage Situation at IGE Offices

Taken from rpgreseller.com:
A gaming studio owner busted into the IGE Shanghai branch in China, kidnapped a receptionist with a toy gun, and demanded the money that IGE owed him for the sale of virtual goods.

IGE owed about $3,000 to the studio owner.
Police responded, no one was harmed.

An IGE employee suggested that this was caused by a misunderstanding brought on by changes in the company. IGE is starting to focus on a gamer to gamer supply model and is paying less attention to studios. This may force some studios into liquidation.



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SEO, WoW RTM Websites Coming and Going...

I haven't posted in a while, but I've been silently watching the RTM industry grow and evolve.

The real money trading market and just ecommerce in general is similar to the old Wild Wild West. There are no laws because things are so new, things are ever-changing, and it is cutthroat. Most of you may know that Google is known as the "gateway" to the internet.

If you've kept track, you may have noticed that the sites listed for keywords such as "buy wow accounts", "buy wow gold", or "trade wow accounts" have changed drastically within the past 6 months.

I'm inclined to attribute this to the recent changes Google has made to it's search engine. They are really cracking down on paid links, which is what most RTM sites are using currently to gain rankings. With the removal of text-link-ads.com entirely from Google, and reports of websites being completely removed for using paid links, this could be a possibly as to why rankings are changing so much.

What does this have to do with the money making aspect? Well, the higher upon the list you are, the most exposure you get, thus the more money you could potentially make.

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