Backgammon Masters Tests 'Second Life' Currency

BackgammonMasters' online game operator surveyed 500 of its international players to check the potential demand for the use of "Linden" (Second Life Virtual world currency) on their site. The survey results came up short. According to the results, only 20 of the 500 players had ever heard of the currency, and only 2 out of those 20 showed any interest in using the currency to play in BackgammonMasters.

BackgammonMasters.com even offered the possibility of exchanging Linden winnings upon cashing out to real life currencies. They went as far as accepting 20 different currencies in the BackgammonMasters cashier including USD, Euro, GBP, CND, US Dollars, Australian Dollar, British Pound, Canadian Dollar, Czech Koruna, Danish Kroner, Hong Kong Dollar, Hungarian Forint, Japanese Yen, New Zealand Dollar, Norwegian Krone, Polish Zloty, Singapore Dollar, Swedish Krona, Swiss Franc, and the South African Rand. But the company found that its players were unreceptive to this idea and preferred to play in USD, GBP or Euros.

Players preferred staying with non-virtual currencies and many players claimed that making transactions in any number of real currencies and playing for real money at BackgammonMasters was much more thrilling then playing with Lindens.

As it stands for now, BackgammonMasters' secure online cashier offers commission–free automatic currency conversions which in the past would have taken a lot of time to calculate and were also very costly. Customers no longer have to face bank charges and exchange rates since they now have the ability to make deposits and withdrawals in their native currencies. Multi currency deposits are now able to be converted automatically into US currency by BackgammonMasters.com to play in their Backgammon, Poker, BlackJack and Perudo games.

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