I would ask :
For years Sony was the most aggressive company with trying to keep real-life money out of the game. It seems like you're doing a 180, "can't beat 'em so join 'em". Aren't you worried about mitigating the problem of sales, at the expense of serious damage to SOE's brand name?
It seems you're allowing sales of characters, items, and plat. Why not a more limited experiment by only permitting plat sales, or item sales?
My character journal Edited, Thu Apr 21 11:23:09 2005 by MRRX