The Lord of the Rings Online Community Q&A #4
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Q: Are there plans to implement anything to encourage players to spend money? Gambling/mini-games?
A: Well there will be a lot of mini-games. We're shipping with some of them, a lot of them will be free. The ones that involve money will depend on how the economy evolves and what the need is for more sinks. I mean, we already have things like freeze-tag, sparring, music and things like that that are in the game. Fun things for people to do. They don't actually cost money, but you can imagine high end versions of these things where exchanges of money are involved. There's lots of opportunities for us to pull money out of the economy, whether it's through crafting or how you get involved in different parts of monster play down the line, to some of the economy that we're going to try to push between players.
