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A thought about gold farmers...

rikiliirikilii Member UncommonPosts: 1,084
in World of Warcraft

So I'm not big fan of the gold farmers.  They are pretty annoying.

But then I got to thinking.  If we forget about the illicit tactics they use to get gold (keylogging, bots, etc.) and assume they are doing it by just good old-fashioned sweat of the brow grinding, is it really that bad?

Think about how you make money to get things in game, such as your 5000g epic mount.  Do you run hundreds of quests and kill thousands of mobs for the 5-10s and vendor trash they drop, or do you farm motes or other drops and sell them to other players? 

If you do the latter like most people, where do you think all the money is coming from?  Farmers inject more currency into the economy, causing inflation.   Most people say this is a bad thing.  But is it really?   Inflation is a double-edged sword.  Sure, you may have to pay more for items you buy from other players.  But you can always farm them yourself, right?   But inflation doesn't affect the price of a lot of things in the game that are sold by vendors (arrows, repairs, mounts, etc.) and means you get more money for items you farm, meaning you can get that 5000g much quicker.

At the end of the day, inflation caused by gold farming ends up decreasing the grind for everyone, not just the people who are buying the gold.

 

/discuss.

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Comments

  • zack702zack702 Member Posts: 56

    Just have fun with the game and dont worry about gold farmers IMO.

    Although when they spam tells of there gold for sell thats kind of annoying but not really.

    Also if they are just using automations and setting a bot up that is constantly killing a mob/mobs thats not very cool.

     

  • rikiliirikilii Member UncommonPosts: 1,084

    Oh, I know that.  They don't really bother me that much. 

    I'm just theorizing, and noting that for all the complaining people do about the problems the farmers supposedly cause, they aren't realizing that the gold farmers may actually be helping them.

    Frankly, I wonder if Blizzard isn't hunting down the farmers because they know that farmers reduce the grind for everyone, and they WANT the game to be more of a grind, thinking that somehow this will get people to play for longer.

     

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  • LiddokunLiddokun Member UncommonPosts: 1,665

    Gold farming is evil.. they must be purged from the face of this earth!!! Start the inquisition!!!!

  • fawdownfawdown Member UncommonPosts: 186
    Just play the game and ignore them .  Unless your bored with it...
  • cyanncyann Member Posts: 73
    They are nomes ffs! Even if they r playing some another race it is still nome . Kill them! Kill them all! U see nome just kill it!

    Jeeez, it hard to describe my feelings about that sucky races. Holocaust 4 all dirty nomes!  If your friend is nome leave him alone or just die before we meet inr. I had 2 meetings with Police due my behaviour to all nome players but it is preludium only, it is only start.

    sorry gtg , i heard about 1 guy living close to me, he plays nome mage . My WoW gaming is finished but hate is still alive
  • montinmontin Member Posts: 218
    You have a valid point however whilst the prices are pushed up, hence the motes cost more. And therefore meaning a normal (no bot) player can then farm motes him/her self to sell and get the gold quicker needed for the fast flying mount. Which is sort of what your saying. But the problem is with the non-normal player. The one that may only be able to log in for a couple of hours a day and plays casually. Value of items to oneside, lets look at availablity of motes. The casual player needs some for whatever reason. However during the limited time they have to play, they simply cant get any because of all the other mote farmers (non-bots, normal players). The reason all the normal players are farming motes is due to the high price caused by inflation and they want the motes to sell. So the casual player that needs the motes has to resort to buying them from AH. Of course the problem is the overly high price of motes on AH and the casual player being unable to farm enough gold to buy them (remember they only play 2 hours a day). Ergo the casual player then has to resort to buying gold from a gold seller simply to be able to buy the motes from AH.



    The problem with inflation is it's a self consuming situation. It continually pushes up the price of things and in turn pushes it's own importance and value up. Before long the rate of inflation pushes the cost of normal items beyond the reach of normal people. In regard to a game, you start lossing players because they cant afford to be competitive with other players. This creates a declining player pool and hence income for the company running the game. They in turn reduce expenditure on staff so customer support becomes worse and development of the game reduces. This continual decline eventually results in the game being closed.



    I've nothing against players farming gold but I do believe gold bot farmers destroy a game. After all a player can only farm for so long, whilst a bot can keep going 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
  • zack702zack702 Member Posts: 56

    "I belive that we miss one small thing in this "farmers story" ..... many will dissagree with me, but reasonable amount of farmers is good in any game, and in wow too."

    Thats what this thread is about if you read the first post they said basicly the same thing mabey your the one who missed it.

  • mf_ravenmf_raven Member Posts: 48

    And ur point in this reply was ?

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