this doesn't surprise me
at all. on all on-line games, there's something like this. the site for the majority of on-line games sell their in-game currency on
http://www.ige.com/. my character (the thing you see in my signature) is the character i've been playing since day 1 i began playing FFXI. i've paid 15 dollars a month for my account, for 5 years (which is roughly $900.00), and i could sell my character on e-bay for around 3,000 dollars. this is where i would go if i wanted to sell my character:
http://www.accountswappers.com/FFXIquote.html.
a lot of people may read this and say,"LOL NO ONE WUD DO THAT!" but seriously... they do. it is technically illegal in these on-line games to sell anything in-game for real life money, but there's really no way you can get caught unless you admit to it in-game and someone reports you for it. i know someone who bought an account for 6,000 on FFXI...
sad really. i made a post a while back saying that i was just waiting for this type of stuff to pop up in this game as well, with it being on-line... looks like i was right!