If you are a gamer then you are clearly familiar with virtual currency and points that you can buy in many games that you can then trade for virtual currency to buy what ever it is that you may need to get that edge in the game.  But the time goes by and you no longer want to play this game anymore, or you won every level and have every piece of machinery that you ever wanted.  Where do you go from here?  Well most likely you just stop playing this game and move on to the next one.  So what about all that virtual currency that you have so patiently collected over the months or worse, years?  It would just sit there in your account until you decide to play the game again, or not.  Well, there may be a solution for this problem. 

A new startup company called Bodega, is working on a solution that will help users swap virtual goods and currencies across different games, and even across different social networks.

Bodega supposed to allow users sell their virtual goods at auction in return for Bodega’s own currency.  You can sell your virtual goods in an e-bay like fashion, where you can put it up as a ‘buy it now’ style purchase or an auction, with an ability to ser a reserve price.  Users looking to purchase these virtual goods or currency can obtain Bodega Money by buying them with their credit cards, or by selling their own virtual goods in the marketplace.

This sounds like a great idea and is very promising accept for one thing.  Unfortunately almost no game manufacturers have this ability developed for their games, weather it is PC, iPhone or web.  Currently Bodega is available on Facebook with plans to launch on MySpace, Bebo, and the iPhone in the near future.  iPhone market is full of these type of games and would be great if Bodega can get their foot in the door on many of these games.  Lets hope they can do it. 

Source:  Techcrunch

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