Here is the shop: http://www.imvu.com/shop/ http://www.imvu.com/shop/ Clothing, Furniture, Rooms, Avatars. I've never heard of imvu before but I don't see how

Here is the shop: http://www.imvu.com/shop/ http://www.imvu.com/shop/ Clothing, Furniture, Rooms, Avatars. I've never heard of imvu before but I don't see how it's any different than micro-transactions within a MMO. If anyone plans to make the argument that MMO's are different because they have "gameplay", then you're probably someone that has never played a very social MMO before. As an ex-EVE player, I can say with extreme confidence that at least 80% of our alliance ("guild"/social group) was not there to actually play the game. It's pretty common that after a certain amount of game time, you just see the "game" as a glorified chat room. It was an ongoing joke to point out how most of us paid $15 to CCP every month for the ability to talk to each other over XMPP.