Free Realms Introduces player-to-player real money transactions

Are you insinuating that free realms isn't a "good" game? Good is subjective, obviously. But why would you consider it bad?

Sure they NGE'd us and revamped the combat and made it a mindless zerg fest, that aside it's the best casual MMO I've ever played. I don't need to commit hours at a time to get anything done, I can log on for 10 minutes and actually accomplish something.

I think the proper term you should have used was "more popular" game. Because admittedly, Free Realms isn't very popular. That is because it gets a bad rap for it's target demographic. "No way, I can't play it, it's marketed toward's teens/tweens!"

I actually believe that Free Realms (Pre-NGE (lol, I just said that)) had a larger adult community than a younger (including children, teens and tweens) community.

They wont need to. They can farm something REALLY desirable then just charge real money for it. They will even use the same techniques, bots and account stealing.

Their aim is not to sell gold, that is just a side effect, their aim has always been to get real world money from the game. This just makes it easier and more legal for them to do this.

Mind you, it does open up one thing for all, you need to declare any money made in this game to your taxation department.