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Re:Patent trolls are shaking us down for selling “rubies” in... by stale2002 on Friday March 02, 2018 @08:23PM (#16507248)
One I just remembered from a decade or 2 ago: Realm of the Mad God.

Its a browser based 16 bit mmo, and used the free to play, micro transactions model way before it was popular.

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Re:Patent trolls are shaking us down for selling “rubies” in... by MereInterest on Friday March 02, 2018 @09:33PM (#16507518)
That one was released in June 2011, according to Wikipedia, so not useful as prior at to a patent filed in the 2000s.
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Re:Patent trolls are shaking us down for selling “rubies” in... by stale2002 on Friday March 02, 2018 @10:38PM (#16507706)
Really? Man, it is hard to keep track of time.
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