SOE Becomes Daybreak / Russian shutdown

Flaw said:

I mean...

A 20 year old game not in the spotlight, with an in game currency that directly exchanges for American dollars...which also happens to be controlled however they wish.

They could create Kronos all day long, or station cash, and turn bad money in to good and also profit/loss as needed.

Honestly sounds like a pretty good strategy to get some laundering going..how many games does DBG run? H1Z1? Does that sell skins and shit for American dollars? Fuck man they could have more people on a team funneling money than they do on customer service teams. Spin the wheel all day long as needed....

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They run quite a lot of games really. EQ1 and EQ2 both of which still probably have ~50-100k players, Planetside 2 which still probably has a fair amount of players, DCUO which apparently hasn't closed down yet somehow, H1Z1 which does have crates/keys system although the game is more or less dead nowadays after PUBG and Fortnite, D&D online which is probably only a small amount of players and LOTRO which still releases expansions and shit so I assume they're like EQ/EQ2 and has a fair amount of players still, a lot of which are probably whales and shit that have been playing for 10years now plus it's F2P and sells a bunch of shit.

So overall, it does seem like a very solid low profile portfolio with a fair amount of fake currency being generated everyday. All these games have cash shop systems and the mmos especially have all the usual mmo systems that some people can't seem to stop using like race changes, name changes, server transfers and so on, as well as some F2P games thrown in.