> > The long-awaited Anarchy Online was launched a few days ago, and in an interview with the game development coordinator (or whatever the title is), he said that some of the beta testers have been playing as much as 140 hours a week, and that he supposes some of these people will be playing characters to give them good stats and then sell them to people who don't have as much time to play...

What's to stop the professional gamers from selling a character that they've built up, and then going in and destroying it, seeing as they would know the character's weakness, and the new owner wouldn't have had time to get used to it?
(What a bad sentence!)

And then the buyer would have to buy a new one to stay in the game at the same level, so the professional would get to sell another character, etc...

ding"is it possible, or is my lack of gaming experience showing here..."dong