To tell the truth, I did not expect to write a review post this year. I was surprised at the amount of news on the subject that actually came out over the past 12 months. Last year I just included "War on Bots" in the title and just put in illicit RMT as a side issue. This year covering the illicit RMT trade makes up a good chunk of the the news in 2013. Also, I started covering the secondary RMT market in other games. In some ways that was in response to the sheer magnitude of what I saw. But more importantly, the games industry is starting to look at what CCP is doing to combat the illicit RMT trade and copying elements of CCP's strategy. In particular, the adoption of PLEX-like objects by Jagex into Runescape (Bonds) and Carbine into the upcoming sci-fi MMORPG Wildstar (C.R.E.D.D.) show how other game companies view CCP's PLEX strategy.