SOE Station Exchange Interview

Gamasutra has kicked up an interview with Sony Online Entertainment CEO John Smedley about the results of the first year of trading on their Station Exchange service.
Q: Despite the paper's statement that revenue for the company from the Station Exchange was 'not a significant source', $274,083 is nothing to write off either. Given the monetary success of the Station Exchange for both SOE and participating players, are there any plans to expand the service to all game servers? If not, what is keeping you from taking that step?

A: Absolutely not. We said at the start that we would keep it on separate servers, and we intend to keep that promise. In the future we will include some form of Exchange in some of our games, although we are leaning towards only allowing certain types of non-game impacting items to be sold.