There's a similar phenomenon going on in World of Warcraft. Activision/Blizzard allows you to buy with real currency a token equal to a month of subscription pl

There's a similar phenomenon going on in World of Warcraft. Activision/Blizzard allows you to buy with real currency a token equal to a month of subscription playing time that you can then sell on that virtual auction house. Someone in the game then exchanges their in-game currency (gold) for the token, freeing themselves from having to use real money. And the purchaser of the token now has in-game currency. Essentially, time has transferred from one person to anothet--the auction house buyer spent their time to collect the gold, which the original token purchaser traded real life money for. "Time is money, friend."