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* ''[[Runescape]]'' has a special flag that you get for buying a £75 ticket to the Runefest convention in real life. A lot of people bought a ticket just for the flag without actually going to the event.
* ''[[Rift]]:'' One advantage to the digital collectors edition (a $10 extra) is a free mount obtainable by all characters in your account at any level. It doesn't help that walking there is pretty damn slow.
* ''[[EveEVE Online]],'' with its Summer 2011 expansion ''Incarna,'' has introduced the Noble Exchange, where you can buy "premium" clothing and accessories for your (new in this expansion) avatar, using a new currency called "Aurum" which is only available through [[Real Money Trade]]. Unfortunately, the prices in the Noble Exchange are set extremely high, often charging as much for avatar clothing as one might spend for ''real-life'' clothing. Furthermore, leaked information from CCP that they might sell [[Bribing Your Way to Victory|ships, ammunition, and even faction standings]] on the Noble Exchange in the future left many players [[Broken Base|in an uproar]]...but the uproar was large enough (and mirrored in canceled subscriptions) that CCP backpedaled furiously (and many other consequences too lengthy to detail here).
* ''[[Age of Conan]]'', an [[Allegedly Free Game]], includes a lot of optional game-enhancing and cosmetic gear. Some of the former can be considered [[Game Breaker|game breaking]], at least at lower levels; while the latter includes an item that does nothing but increases an [[World of Buxom|already well-endowed female character's]] bustline to [[Gag Boobs]] size.
 
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