If you punish the recipients, the market begins to dry up. Fewer people willing to buy gold means the price falls, and soon its not worth the gold farmers time to even be present in the game.
Interesting concept to try out, I would be curious to see what would actually happen,
I think the tough part would be waiting to see which MMO would actually try this, have
any ????
If you loose a customer that way he might not be back and that might not be good for the company, but if all MMO's did it then I think it would work very well.
If I am going to speculate how hard they are going to fight the gold farmers and bug exploiters from previous experiences AC/ AC2 / DDO - I am going to say that they are not going to fight them at all unless it COMPLETELY breaks the game and even then, they will only catch 1/100th of the players involved and when they do slap them on the wrist with silly string and expect it to stop...
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If you punish the recipients, the market begins to dry up. Fewer people willing to buy gold means the price falls, and soon its not worth the gold farmers time to even be present in the game.
Interesting concept to try out, I would be curious to see what would actually happen,
I think the tough part would be waiting to see which MMO would actually try this, have
any ????
If you loose a customer that way he might not be back and that might not be good for the company, but if all MMO's did it then I think it would work very well.
The gold farmers, while wrong, tend to become this convenient scapegoat that excuses the bad behaviour of the gold buyers. Any enforcement should be two pronged. This is the way police enforce laws against prostitution and child pornography. You go after both the peddlers and the purchasers.
A few highly publicized crack downs on gold buyers would go a long way to lessen the gold farming problem. Imagine if you were a gold buyer who spent 200$ real cash on gold, and then your account was banned. If news of this got out, it would put the fear of loosing real cash into many would-be buyers.
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Interesting concept to try out, I would be curious to see what would actually happen,
I think the tough part would be waiting to see which MMO would actually try this, have
any ????
If you loose a customer that way he might not be back and that might not be good for the company, but if all MMO's did it then I think it would work very well.
I think even /bug works...
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Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
Interesting concept to try out, I would be curious to see what would actually happen,
I think the tough part would be waiting to see which MMO would actually try this, have
any ????
If you loose a customer that way he might not be back and that might not be good for the company, but if all MMO's did it then I think it would work very well.
The gold farmers, while wrong, tend to become this convenient scapegoat that excuses the bad behaviour of the gold buyers. Any enforcement should be two pronged. This is the way police enforce laws against prostitution and child pornography. You go after both the peddlers and the purchasers.
A few highly publicized crack downs on gold buyers would go a long way to lessen the gold farming problem. Imagine if you were a gold buyer who spent 200$ real cash on gold, and then your account was banned. If news of this got out, it would put the fear of loosing real cash into many would-be buyers.
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Games I'm watching: Infinity: The Quest for Earth, Force of Arms.
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