i said yes because after the WoW mount grind (both the lvl 40 and 60 one (i ended up getting the pvp mount too)) i decided that i would NEVER go through that again unless it was considerably faster.
reached lvl 33 in Lotro and i have 2g. thats savings from when i was lvl 15. never purchased anything but repairs and skills and there is no way i would have made another 2g by lvl 35....or even 40.
so yes....i have purchased gold before...but only a small ammount and (i have massive problems with AH and dont want to add to that) i never purchase anything off AH (with that gold).
MMO wish list:
-Changeable worlds -Solid non level based game -Sharks with lasers attached to their heads
I don't work my ass off daily to spend it on ingame currency. *Ahem* I'd rather spend it on my girlfriend. *cough* (Yes, she just walked in while I was typing this).
I play WoW atm. I havent bought gold before, but now that i'm working full-time I'm finding it pretty hard to slap together enough for my epic flying mount, buying armor patches and enchants for my gear, crafting it is all sapping my money, and i pvp 90% of the time. I'm making a new warrior for WotLK and i plan to pvp with him too, no raiding , so getting another 5000gold is just a pain in the butt.
I'm seriously considering buying some gold, looking for a good site, dont post any here ofcourse .
You really shouldn't buy gold. You are supporting all those gold farmers that send you private messages advertising their website, spam general chat with their sale's pitch, and ultimately give unfair advantages to people. The game basically GIVES you gold with their 25 daily quest. I mean seriously...an epic flying mount isn't even worth 5k gold. It's not even worth 3k gold imo. "Buying armor patches"? Okay you must have bought your account.
If a game is at the point where i have to concider buying ingame money i just quit it.
Quotations Those Who make peaceful resolutions impossible, make violent resolutions inevitable. John F. Kennedy
Life... is the shit that happens while you wait for moments that never come - Lester Freeman
Lie to no one. If there 's somebody close to you, you'll ruin it with a lie. If they're a stranger, who the fuck are they you gotta lie to them? - Willy Nelson
I am Guilty. I have purchased gold for a certain mmo. Found out it was pretty useless for anything but Twinking out lowbies. First all...i am what people would call a "casual" gamer...mostly solo. I am not patient enough to sit through hours of raiding /arena/ BGs in WOW...for the uber gear. So the gold is only good for twinks...and buying mounts or materials to raise skills....mounts can wait...because...according to game design..you will generally have the gold you need at the time you are ready for a mount...except epic flying...5000g..come on. So twinks and professions...and with profession skill raising you usually have to farm anyhow b/c the mats you need are not on AH. You can't buy uber gear...some decent stuff...but crap compared to raid loot. So my play style has no need for stockpiled gold.
I voted yes, well before you flame me, please let me explain my opinion. I had never buy gold for any mmo ever, but I did sold some accounts before (not the gold but accounts). I sold EQ, EQ2 and wow accounts after I finished playing with them. Did people buy it? Yes (thats before they had the rules for no selling accounts in ebay...oh long ago lol ). They dont have time to grind or just want a max level character to play with, they are buying my time to get the game going. I paid $15/mo to the company and if someone want to buy an 10 months account for $150 with all the epic items in the game. I think it is fair.
To the point of the in game econmy. How will it be the gold farmer's fault? The money keeps coming in from the loot, it is the developers job to implement a money sink into the game to counter them (soul bind or other ideas).
Besides all the mmo are so easy to make money if you know what to do. In WoW (ages ago, I played for 6 months since launch) I had money for 2 epic mount way before lv60. In Lotro I had 3g at lv19.
Lastly, I DO NOT support advertising for gold farming in game. They can sell their gold (is all supply and demand really, why would they farm gold if the game is dead and no one plays it? If you guys want to blame someone, dont blame the gold farmer but the people who bought the gold) in their website but getting all the spam email in game is super annoying.
I would never, not just because i dont trust the gold farmer sites (i dont) with my cc# but also because its like paying for more bots in game.
You buy the gold with real money, that gold farmer now has to bot more to replenish his funds, the more people buy, the more bots go up.
Soon other botter companies get wind of the first farmers profits...all of a sudden the game gets clogged with bots, this happens in a LOT of games. Then you guys bitch about the amount of bots.
Then there is the economy of the game that collapses. A normal game, i will be able to save up for a decent weapon/armor/whatever. In a game where people use RMT gold farmer sites, i see prices for decent equipment beyond what a normal person could ever aquire. This will cause some people to buy gold, so they can buy the inflated items. Now that the inflated items are sol people know that other will pay that price.
So, one or two people buying another guys gold with real cash...not a problem...when you support the gold farmer "industry" it starts a slow decline of the game. To me half the fun of playing these games is getting the money to buy the cool items. So next time you play a game loaded with bots,farmer spam, and inflated prices on everything, you can thank the lazy folk who would rather pay real money for fake money.
I think that as long as people are willing to do anything to be the uber leet player in game, there will be idiots who would rather their beloved game go into decline, than to actually get these items through playing. If you would rather pay someone else to get the gold for you or run a program to level and play for you then mabey playing a mmo isnt for you.
I only bought in-game money once and that was in EQ1. It has to be the worst decision of my gaming career. After doing it I realized that most of my fun in the game was doing things to make money and after getting the money so easily, the game really just lost its fun-factor.
I'm guilty beyond gifting gold. Bought gold to buy a nature resist crafted set to join AQ guild. Farming/shopping mats for resist gear was not fun at all.
Someone mentioned Second Life... Second Life isn't a game, it is a virtual world, and as such, doesn't really belong in this conversation. The in-world system for exchanging RL money for Second Life Lindens (and Lindens for RL money) is an intentional part of the economy.
I have bought in-game money using RL money in the past. I didn't have time to farm the gold I needed in the timeframe I set for myself, and took a shortcut that violated the ToS. And over the course of a year, I bought quite a bit of in-game gold for RL money.
That said, I doubt I would do such a thing again. Aside from the threat of being caught and having an account terminated, I consider myself to have learned my lesson. I have RL things to spend RL money on that are more important to me now than anything I might want or achieve in a MMOG.
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People who buy gold are complete and utter morons who can't play the game. Not one single game I have played yet. Not UO, EQ1,EQ2, WOW, AOC, LOTRO,SWG or any one of a dozen others has had issues with obtaining enough coin to purchase whatever you may want by legit in game means. These games practically rain coin. You almost have to do things with malice and forethought to not make coin. And if you actually focus your play towards making coin one of your priorities then holy crap the coin you can make.
True, sometimes it might take a week or two of well thought out play to get the coin you need for something, instead of being just a click away, but still hardly onerous even for someone only playing an hour or two a day. That people would actually pay hard RL cash for something so easily obtainable always boggles my mind .
Many games have terms of service which prohibit the sale of in-game money by out-of-game vendors.
If the game didn't prohibit the sale of in-game money would you purchase it? Feel free to comment on why you think that games should either allow or restrict the sale of in-game money? It seems to me that there are both benefits and grievances for allowing the sale of in-game items. A game could probably retain more players from one audience if it allowed those players to make such transactions. And those players might benefit from acquiring a little extra money. New players into the game might be more likely to continue playing if they had better access to gear to help them in their journies. However, the game balance might be disturbed by such provisions by making the game either too easy or to wealth friendly and cutting out the audience who plays on a more casual basis or plays on a tactical basis. Personally, I think that purchasing in-game shouldn't be necessary to enjoy the gaming experience, but that it shouldn't be prohibited either. Of course, game mechanics would be necessary to prevent perma-camping of mobiles which drop popular items, and I am not insisting that instancing be used because I don't prefer instancing.
Lol now i know why so many mmo's go down the drain and its more and more THEMEPARK, bah so many say yes to buy ingame currency, cheat there way to top, lazy cheating b......
Any game thats have real money involved legally or through gold sites, i dont play these games are for ........wel you get my point.
Games played:AC1-Darktide'99-2000-AC2-Darktide/dawnsong2003-2005,Lineage2-2005-2006 and now Darkfall-2009..... In between WoW few months AoC few months and some f2p also all very short few weeks.
If buying in-game money is illegal then no; otherwise I would probably consider it, and decide not to. Additionally a game that requires you to buy in-game money for it to be enjoyable seems to be quite flawed. I would most likely consider if it truly was worth it; and most likely decide that it wasn't.
Many games have terms of service which prohibit the sale of in-game money by out-of-game vendors.
If the game didn't prohibit the sale of in-game money would you purchase it? Feel free to comment on why you think that games should either allow or restrict the sale of in-game money? It seems to me that there are both benefits and grievances for allowing the sale of in-game items. A game could probably retain more players from one audience if it allowed those players to make such transactions. And those players might benefit from acquiring a little extra money. New players into the game might be more likely to continue playing if they had better access to gear to help them in their journies. However, the game balance might be disturbed by such provisions by making the game either too easy or to wealth friendly and cutting out the audience who plays on a more casual basis or plays on a tactical basis. Personally, I think that purchasing in-game shouldn't be necessary to enjoy the gaming experience, but that it shouldn't be prohibited either. Of course, game mechanics would be necessary to prevent perma-camping of mobiles which drop popular items, and I am not insisting that instancing be used because I don't prefer instancing.
I've seen what problems arrive when players start buying in game money. The economy goes to hell and players jack up the prices on their vendors to compensate. It's just a mess.
Most people would buy in game money i know i have. Casual players in any MMO out there NEED to in order to compete. Playign afew hours a day in any RAID type game that all games seem to follow now adays due to lack of imgination for more end game content. Feed the Hardcore player screw the rest. So when that drop goes for sale on a merchant thats nice and stats loaded its high priced because the hardcore players now only the hardcore players can afford it thus leaving the casual player in the dust for such needed gear. In Turn thats what kills game economy not buying money from someone in game. Its still in game money it was farmed by someone and then handed to another toon. How does that translate to killing the economy? The economy was killed by the hardcore raiders who farm all the hard items/gear that the casual player hasnt the time to dedicate 6-10 hours to a raid. Thus in order to compete in a game that has PVP rewards sytem or heavily gear dependent most will buy money to get the items needed to compete.
Only if the game is boring and I plan to leave it as soon as I see entire path from the beginning to the high end content... Just like to finish things that have started, and also to see as much as possible MMOs
I think that you are not alone in this option. I might be interested in doing so if the game was exotic enough. As it is, I don't see myself subscribing to any game that would be so short-lived though.
It depends. I have never purchased in game gold for $, but I am sure i would if it was offered by the game itself. I hate the bot gold farmer spammers that constantly spam gold sites and refuse to buy from them just because i find them annoying in game. Now if I knew the money was going to the developers to improve the game I like, i would much rather have in game cash for sale by games than item shops. I will never buy in game items from games, hell I refuse to even play games with an item shop. But if all they sold was in game cash instead so that all players still had the opportunity to gain all game items without buying them I surely would play their game and I would buy gold from them as well. I would even buy gold and pay a monthly fee if they are giving me a quality game. Hell if that is what it takes to get better games, so be it. I think games themselves selling gold helps reduce the number of gold farmers in game because competing with the game itself would be too much competition for them. I actually like this idea, it allows players who have time to spend earning it in game to do so, and players who have real $ instead of time to be able to compete as well.
Interesting. I am the exact opposite. I wouldn't pay extra money to game developers for in-game items, but I might purchase items from other players of the game. Mainly because I think that if the game developers are the ones who stand to profit from such a system then they might intentionally throw obstacles(developed in the game) at the players in an attempt to get them to spend more money.
I voted yes, well before you flame me, please let me explain my opinion. I had never buy gold for any mmo ever, but I did sold some accounts before (not the gold but accounts). I sold EQ, EQ2 and wow accounts after I finished playing with them. Did people buy it? Yes (thats before they had the rules for no selling accounts in ebay...oh long ago lol ). They dont have time to grind or just want a max level character to play with, they are buying my time to get the game going. I paid $15/mo to the company and if someone want to buy an 10 months account for $150 with all the epic items in the game. I think it is fair. To the point of the in game econmy. How will it be the gold farmer's fault? The money keeps coming in from the loot, it is the developers job to implement a money sink into the game to counter them (soul bind or other ideas). Besides all the mmo are so easy to make money if you know what to do. In WoW (ages ago, I played for 6 months since launch) I had money for 2 epic mount way before lv60. In Lotro I had 3g at lv19. Lastly, I DO NOT support advertising for gold farming in game. They can sell their gold (is all supply and demand really, why would they farm gold if the game is dead and no one plays it? If you guys want to blame someone, dont blame the gold farmer but the people who bought the gold) in their website but getting all the spam email in game is super annoying.
I agree with you about unsolicited gold selling. I think it should be entirely managed by an in-game moderated interface(or among friends and word of mouth between them).
It depends. I have never purchased in game gold for $, but I am sure i would if it was offered by the game itself. I hate the bot gold farmer spammers that constantly spam gold sites and refuse to buy from them just because i find them annoying in game. Now if I knew the money was going to the developers to improve the game I like, i would much rather have in game cash for sale by games than item shops. I will never buy in game items from games, hell I refuse to even play games with an item shop. But if all they sold was in game cash instead so that all players still had the opportunity to gain all game items without buying them I surely would play their game and I would buy gold from them as well. I would even buy gold and pay a monthly fee if they are giving me a quality game. Hell if that is what it takes to get better games, so be it. I think games themselves selling gold helps reduce the number of gold farmers in game because competing with the game itself would be too much competition for them. I actually like this idea, it allows players who have time to spend earning it in game to do so, and players who have real $ instead of time to be able to compete as well.
Interesting. I am the exact opposite. I wouldn't pay extra money to game developers for in-game items, but I might purchase items from other players of the game. Mainly because I think that if the game developers are the ones who stand to profit from such a system then they might intentionally throw obstacles(developed in the game) at the players in an attempt to get them to spend more money.
Well I look at it this way.. Players always want more content, developers try to figure out how to be able to afford new content without raising monthly subs, well if they just sold in game cash that could give them the extra $ needed to be able to add alot more monthly content to their games than they would from subs alone. Players who have the time to earn the cash in game still can do so and never have to buy gold at all. Players who have more real cash than time can buy gold and still be able to compete with the players playing 10 hrs a day. and it is a win win situation for players and developers because players will get their content and developers will be able to eat.
I am definately against "item shops" because I don't think that gives everyone a fair playing field. With it being in game cash for sale only, it allows all players to still have access to all in game content. Now if the developers did it right, they would not have to throw more obstacles to make more $ because it would work great from the beginning. The developers deserve to profit from their game, because without them there wouldn;t be a game at all. By sending your $ elsewhere instead you are hurting the game you like. I think they deserve to make all the $ from the game instead of people leeching off of their game to earn $ , and ruining the community as well. Everyone knows gold farmers do not make for good community, and with this system it would make it very hard for them to make a living this way, thus making it futile to try and farm on the game.
If you like the game why not spend your $ to improve the game instead of hurt it?
Wow, 45% RWT for an advantage? That makes me not feel like playing anymore. If i even see "item mall" on the main page, im off to find another game. Whats the point of playing a game when u dislike the gameplay so much that u gotta use real cash to outshine others? Thats like steroids in pro sports. Its just not right, and it ruins the game for honest players.
Agree totally. I was about to try to add my own comments, but yours sum the issues up much better.
If you can't "Have your cake & eat it too", then how can "The proof of the pudding be in the eating"?
Ignorant...just means you do not know something...I'll accept ignorant. I bought gold for the first mmo I played. Found out I didn't really need to...because the game design..of course..allowed for ample resources/gold when needed. I was ignorant...now I know. But people calling other people "morons" or similiarly insulting remarks is ridiculous and unnecessary. We were asked a question...and most answered with polite and honest answers. It amazes me how so many people just bitch and moan about every f@cking thing....and i will always be ignorant as to why.
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i said yes because after the WoW mount grind (both the lvl 40 and 60 one (i ended up getting the pvp mount too)) i decided that i would NEVER go through that again unless it was considerably faster.
reached lvl 33 in Lotro and i have 2g. thats savings from when i was lvl 15. never purchased anything but repairs and skills and there is no way i would have made another 2g by lvl 35....or even 40.
so yes....i have purchased gold before...but only a small ammount and (i have massive problems with AH and dont want to add to that) i never purchase anything off AH (with that gold).
MMO wish list:
-Changeable worlds
-Solid non level based game
-Sharks with lasers attached to their heads
never!
why even play if you have to buy in game gold.
PLaying: EvE, Ryzom
Waiting For: Earthrise, Perpetuum
No.
I don't work my ass off daily to spend it on ingame currency. *Ahem* I'd rather spend it on my girlfriend. *cough* (Yes, she just walked in while I was typing this).
Seriously: No.
You really shouldn't buy gold. You are supporting all those gold farmers that send you private messages advertising their website, spam general chat with their sale's pitch, and ultimately give unfair advantages to people. The game basically GIVES you gold with their 25 daily quest. I mean seriously...an epic flying mount isn't even worth 5k gold. It's not even worth 3k gold imo. "Buying armor patches"? Okay you must have bought your account.
If a game is at the point where i have to concider buying ingame money i just quit it.
Quotations Those Who make peaceful resolutions impossible, make violent resolutions inevitable. John F. Kennedy
Life... is the shit that happens while you wait for moments that never come - Lester Freeman
Lie to no one. If there 's somebody close to you, you'll ruin it with a lie. If they're a stranger, who the fuck are they you gotta lie to them? - Willy Nelson
I am Guilty. I have purchased gold for a certain mmo. Found out it was pretty useless for anything but Twinking out lowbies. First all...i am what people would call a "casual" gamer...mostly solo. I am not patient enough to sit through hours of raiding /arena/ BGs in WOW...for the uber gear. So the gold is only good for twinks...and buying mounts or materials to raise skills....mounts can wait...because...according to game design..you will generally have the gold you need at the time you are ready for a mount...except epic flying...5000g..come on. So twinks and professions...and with profession skill raising you usually have to farm anyhow b/c the mats you need are not on AH. You can't buy uber gear...some decent stuff...but crap compared to raid loot. So my play style has no need for stockpiled gold.
I voted yes, well before you flame me, please let me explain my opinion. I had never buy gold for any mmo ever, but I did sold some accounts before (not the gold but accounts). I sold EQ, EQ2 and wow accounts after I finished playing with them. Did people buy it? Yes (thats before they had the rules for no selling accounts in ebay...oh long ago lol ). They dont have time to grind or just want a max level character to play with, they are buying my time to get the game going. I paid $15/mo to the company and if someone want to buy an 10 months account for $150 with all the epic items in the game. I think it is fair.
To the point of the in game econmy. How will it be the gold farmer's fault? The money keeps coming in from the loot, it is the developers job to implement a money sink into the game to counter them (soul bind or other ideas).
Besides all the mmo are so easy to make money if you know what to do. In WoW (ages ago, I played for 6 months since launch) I had money for 2 epic mount way before lv60. In Lotro I had 3g at lv19.
Lastly, I DO NOT support advertising for gold farming in game. They can sell their gold (is all supply and demand really, why would they farm gold if the game is dead and no one plays it? If you guys want to blame someone, dont blame the gold farmer but the people who bought the gold) in their website but getting all the spam email in game is super annoying.
I would never, not just because i dont trust the gold farmer sites (i dont) with my cc# but also because its like paying for more bots in game.
You buy the gold with real money, that gold farmer now has to bot more to replenish his funds, the more people buy, the more bots go up.
Soon other botter companies get wind of the first farmers profits...all of a sudden the game gets clogged with bots, this happens in a LOT of games. Then you guys bitch about the amount of bots.
Then there is the economy of the game that collapses. A normal game, i will be able to save up for a decent weapon/armor/whatever. In a game where people use RMT gold farmer sites, i see prices for decent equipment beyond what a normal person could ever aquire. This will cause some people to buy gold, so they can buy the inflated items. Now that the inflated items are sol people know that other will pay that price.
So, one or two people buying another guys gold with real cash...not a problem...when you support the gold farmer "industry" it starts a slow decline of the game. To me half the fun of playing these games is getting the money to buy the cool items. So next time you play a game loaded with bots,farmer spam, and inflated prices on everything, you can thank the lazy folk who would rather pay real money for fake money.
I think that as long as people are willing to do anything to be the uber leet player in game, there will be idiots who would rather their beloved game go into decline, than to actually get these items through playing. If you would rather pay someone else to get the gold for you or run a program to level and play for you then mabey playing a mmo isnt for you.
The only people buying in-game money are mentally challenged. Why in the world would you risk your account doing something so foolish?
I only bought in-game money once and that was in EQ1. It has to be the worst decision of my gaming career. After doing it I realized that most of my fun in the game was doing things to make money and after getting the money so easily, the game really just lost its fun-factor.
It makes a nice present for your gaming family.
I'm guilty beyond gifting gold. Bought gold to buy a nature resist crafted set to join AQ guild. Farming/shopping mats for resist gear was not fun at all.
Someone mentioned Second Life... Second Life isn't a game, it is a virtual world, and as such, doesn't really belong in this conversation. The in-world system for exchanging RL money for Second Life Lindens (and Lindens for RL money) is an intentional part of the economy.
I have bought in-game money using RL money in the past. I didn't have time to farm the gold I needed in the timeframe I set for myself, and took a shortcut that violated the ToS. And over the course of a year, I bought quite a bit of in-game gold for RL money.
That said, I doubt I would do such a thing again. Aside from the threat of being caught and having an account terminated, I consider myself to have learned my lesson. I have RL things to spend RL money on that are more important to me now than anything I might want or achieve in a MMOG.
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Retired Games: Star Wars Galaxies, World of Warcraft
Looking forward to: Stargate Worlds, Aion, Earthrise
[quote]isn't a game, it is a virtual world[/quote]
huh...k...
virtual world, yes, where the goal is to entertain...sounds pretty much like a game to me...or is making money via having fun not entertaining?
People who buy gold are complete and utter morons who can't play the game. Not one single game I have played yet. Not UO, EQ1,EQ2, WOW, AOC, LOTRO,SWG or any one of a dozen others has had issues with obtaining enough coin to purchase whatever you may want by legit in game means. These games practically rain coin. You almost have to do things with malice and forethought to not make coin. And if you actually focus your play towards making coin one of your priorities then holy crap the coin you can make.
True, sometimes it might take a week or two of well thought out play to get the coin you need for something, instead of being just a click away, but still hardly onerous even for someone only playing an hour or two a day. That people would actually pay hard RL cash for something so easily obtainable always boggles my mind .
Wow, 45% RWT for an advantage?
That makes me not feel like playing anymore.
If i even see "item mall" on the main page, im off to find another game.
Whats the point of playing a game when u dislike the gameplay so much that u gotta use real cash to outshine others?
Thats like steroids in pro sports. Its just not right, and it ruins the game for honest players.
Lol now i know why so many mmo's go down the drain and its more and more THEMEPARK, bah so many say yes to buy ingame currency, cheat there way to top, lazy cheating b......
Any game thats have real money involved legally or through gold sites, i dont play these games are for ........wel you get my point.
Games played:AC1-Darktide'99-2000-AC2-Darktide/dawnsong2003-2005,Lineage2-2005-2006 and now Darkfall-2009.....
In between WoW few months AoC few months and some f2p also all very short few weeks.
If buying in-game money is illegal then no; otherwise I would probably consider it, and decide not to. Additionally a game that requires you to buy in-game money for it to be enjoyable seems to be quite flawed. I would most likely consider if it truly was worth it; and most likely decide that it wasn't.
I've seen what problems arrive when players start buying in game money. The economy goes to hell and players jack up the prices on their vendors to compensate. It's just a mess.
Good point.
I think that you are not alone in this option. I might be interested in doing so if the game was exotic enough. As it is, I don't see myself subscribing to any game that would be so short-lived though.
Interesting. I am the exact opposite. I wouldn't pay extra money to game developers for in-game items, but I might purchase items from other players of the game. Mainly because I think that if the game developers are the ones who stand to profit from such a system then they might intentionally throw obstacles(developed in the game) at the players in an attempt to get them to spend more money.
I agree with you about unsolicited gold selling. I think it should be entirely managed by an in-game moderated interface(or among friends and word of mouth between them).
Interesting. I am the exact opposite. I wouldn't pay extra money to game developers for in-game items, but I might purchase items from other players of the game. Mainly because I think that if the game developers are the ones who stand to profit from such a system then they might intentionally throw obstacles(developed in the game) at the players in an attempt to get them to spend more money.
Well I look at it this way.. Players always want more content, developers try to figure out how to be able to afford new content without raising monthly subs, well if they just sold in game cash that could give them the extra $ needed to be able to add alot more monthly content to their games than they would from subs alone. Players who have the time to earn the cash in game still can do so and never have to buy gold at all. Players who have more real cash than time can buy gold and still be able to compete with the players playing 10 hrs a day. and it is a win win situation for players and developers because players will get their content and developers will be able to eat.
I am definately against "item shops" because I don't think that gives everyone a fair playing field. With it being in game cash for sale only, it allows all players to still have access to all in game content. Now if the developers did it right, they would not have to throw more obstacles to make more $ because it would work great from the beginning. The developers deserve to profit from their game, because without them there wouldn;t be a game at all. By sending your $ elsewhere instead you are hurting the game you like. I think they deserve to make all the $ from the game instead of people leeching off of their game to earn $ , and ruining the community as well. Everyone knows gold farmers do not make for good community, and with this system it would make it very hard for them to make a living this way, thus making it futile to try and farm on the game.
If you like the game why not spend your $ to improve the game instead of hurt it?
Agree totally. I was about to try to add my own comments, but yours sum the issues up much better.
If you can't "Have your cake & eat it too", then how can "The proof of the pudding be in the eating"?
Take the Hecatomb? TCG What Is Your Doom? quiz.
Ignorant...just means you do not know something...I'll accept ignorant. I bought gold for the first mmo I played. Found out I didn't really need to...because the game design..of course..allowed for ample resources/gold when needed. I was ignorant...now I know. But people calling other people "morons" or similiarly insulting remarks is ridiculous and unnecessary. We were asked a question...and most answered with polite and honest answers. It amazes me how so many people just bitch and moan about every f@cking thing....and i will always be ignorant as to why.