Quote from: pening on December 28, 2013, 10:35:26 PM

Quote from: BigJohn on December 28, 2013, 09:41:15 PM

I'm a game developer, and we thought at one point of using Bitcoin as the in-game currency of a space-civ type game. The main problem we ran into is security. [...]
We figured we'd be the target for theft and it just doesn't make sense to take on that much responsibility.

So, you wont be taking credit cards or other payments? Otherwise, this conclusion is kinda scary. That aside did you consider an alt, either one of the others out there or your own? And if not, why not?

There is an industry and regulations around credit cards. The game company has a known exposure and cost model. They don't have that with bitcoin. I don't blame them for pushing it off for 'in game' purposes. They could still use bitcoins to buy game time. That would be no different than any other CC transaction from their perspective. They'd only need to maintain a 'company wallet' for the transaction.