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SheistaSheista Member UncommonPosts: 1,203
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The other day I looked to the top of the site, and noticed an IGE advertisement. As I type this post, there's one going at the top as well.

Isn't this sort of counterproductive? After all, many gaming communities have been ruined by gold selling, account selling, etc. Not to mention it's considered illegal according to most MMO's eula agreements.

It's disappointing to see that MMORPG.com supports IGE in any way, since they are the main cause of broken economies in games...

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  • theanimedudetheanimedude Member UncommonPosts: 1,610

    this is like the 8th thread on those ads... just live with it. its part of games.. just like hacking is. you can try to hide it, but its always there. Do you want to pay what IGE is giving them to make up for the loss in business? dont think so ::::21::

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  • HerithiusHerithius Member UncommonPosts: 277

    http://www.1up.com/do/feature?pager.offset=0&cId=3141815 1UP article on IGE(not flattering).

    http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/09/technology/09gaming.html New York times article(quite recent) on farming warehouses(where IGE gets a lot of their gold from, by their own admission).

    Both eye opening. In the 1UP article it talks about how IGE openly supported hackers/dupers/exploiters who were trying to not get caught in their respective games.

    In the New York times article it goes into detail on these farming companies in general. Quite often, for a person to farm 12 hours a day/7 days a week they can expect to get paid between 75-250$. They, quite literally, work in sweatshop conditions. Owners of these warehouses know they can pay their farmers whatever they want because otherwise they would, most often, be in the streets.

    Further, IGE's mere existence is a violation of most mmorpgs EULA.  In the Dec 8, 2005 NY Times article it mentions how mmorpg GMS and such are constantly trying to track them down for this illegal behavior. For mmorpg.com to blatantly post their ads is incomprehensible. I have to believe mmorpg.com can find other people to post advertisements on their site or heaven forbid, make a tad less each month by showing the conviction to not have it. This simply promotes/validates the entire industry.

    While I highly doubt mmorpg.com will change their ways of doing a grave disservice to the industry they named themselves after, I encourage people to read the articles. Its pretty informative.

  • SarnathSarnath Member Posts: 74

    All I can say is "Wow..". I would encourage EVERYONE to please read that second link with the New York Times article. That puts things into an entirely new light. I had never even imagined that such a thing could happen. This is something that I will have to think about for a long time. Puts IGE into a whole new perspective if you ask me.

     

  • GolricGolric Member Posts: 153

    i hate gold/adena farmers in games when i started wow after being in l2 with its farmer hell i had people whispering me to sell gold so i reported each one >:) and yes IGE is the devil! (in l2 one of the first people to reach 75 had there guild title as www.IGE.com i found that funny lol)

    edit: been playing wow too much >.< put 60 instead of 75

  • ZeremiZeremi Member Posts: 386

    There should be advertisements so much mmorpg.com wants to, not just too much... like 3 in home and 2 in everywhere is fine ::::19::

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