Originally posted by: RBachman
Originally posted by: fisher
he doesn't take MMOs too seriously tho!!
Certainly not as seriously as someone who buys game currency.
Sorry to hear about your marriage, no man deserves such a fate - not even you, my gold-buying, lying, antagonistic friend. Variety is the spice of life
If the cards weren't still being farmed they'd be fetching much more than 3g apiece. Surely you've taken an economics class at some point in time?
On spam to buy gold; it does indeed happen. It's likely that it's more prominent for me since I'm on a transfer server. Regardless, it's one part of a much larger problem, though it's rather pointless to argue it since you sad, sad people will never admit, even to yourselves, that you're harming the genre by cheating and just being allaround scumballs.
Originally posted by: fisher
let me explain to you why gold farmers are allowed to exist. MMOs want to pull as many paying customers as possible, but some people just can't spend the time it takes to survive in these games. you aren't going to be doing much endgame playing 10 hours a week. so along come farmers, who farm gold and sell it to these people who want to play, but can't grind constantly. this in turn gives the MMO company more paying customers and more revenue. sure in public they condemn it and every once in awhile ban an account or two, but that's it. you don't think they can't see who logs in from where? do you think a farming company with 20 computers in one room can't be tracked down? they could ban every account associated with that IP and continue to ban anyone from there. as i said before, once these companies start paying more in new accounts than they are making they would go away. but these guys are bringing in more people who are going to play their game and pay them monthly for it. so they let it go on. and if they aren't going to stop it, then there is no reason people shouldn't take advantage of it. they have as much right to enjoy the game as you do, regardless of how l33t you feel because you can pwn n00bs with your uber rogue.
Thank you, Captain Obvious. Have you any other brilliant insights? Do you think perhaps the earth might revolve around the sun? Do you have a nagging suspicion that grass is green?
Would you mind quoting me where I said otherwise? In fact, if you were to actually read this thread you'd see I pointed this out earlier. I truly hope you and/or your wife is sterile; illiteracy is a big enough problem without your contribution via genetic progeneration.
You're either completely new to MMOGs or entirely delusional (with an outside chance you actually work for / own one of the farming corporations) if you think this doesn't severely harm the games. I've watched it grow from the small scale, independent transfers which have always happened into the booming industry it is now, firsthand, and seen the terrible effects it's had on the genre; it's really not dissimilar to having seen TV degenerate into the Jerry Springer show and people eating slugs. What's the next target for the unwashed masses to ruin? What good things are left in this world for them to infect?
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