Somehow, buying real-world items with virtual currency is a lot better than shamelessly selling farmed WoW gold on eBay. CCP are charging 200 million ISK for ads in their magazine - a fairly hefty sum in-game. Even better, they’re then using that currency to pay their writers, hoping to establish freelance writing as another EVE “career”. Shame I don’t play enough to have anything worth contributing - I could really do with 40 million ISK.

I hope we see more of this - Alice already linked to someone making WoW portraits for gold, surely there are countless other possibilities.