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Bounty Gamers - What Are You Willing to Pay for Help? -
SBFord
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Bounty Gamers - What Are You Willing to Pay for Help? -
A new site is now available called Bounty Gamers that, as the name implies, allows an exchange of real world dollars for assistance with troublesome parts of games. Players post bounties for the service required, such as getting through the newest WoW raid or assistance beating a troublesome part of a game.
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So now you guys are advertising an RMT site?
Same tune, different day.We were sent a press release that seemed suited to open up an interesting discussion. Seriously, people need to get over the "you get paid to advertise" thing. It doesn't happen. It is merely a point of discussion.
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Lame. Definitely a dark grey area of gaming ethic, but pff, as if something like this exists.
The sad part is that it DOES exist and in a thousand other places than this one. I'd have a much less difficult time wrapping my mind around this if the "bounty hunters" were all working free of charge or in exchange for some sort of in-game currency. I can live with that.
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I can see how this could make money. But more then likely never will. Shaiya had something similar where players advertised power leveling for gold. Basically you paid them gold and they would power level you. LOL might work because you basically pay someone to get your account to a higher pvp bracket. It would probably be cheaper then buying an account or gold outright.
@jesteralways get a grip man they are reporting news here
Agreed..
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We know you need to make money but don't think we are dumb. This is pretty damn blatant.
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Dunno how much help people can really get from this, just following someone around that does everything for you.
Oh well, better option by far than i mentioned of the giving your account info out to people.
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Seems they are listing real in-game help -vs- give me your account info and let me rob you.
Dunno how much help people can really get from this, just following someone around that does everything for you.
Oh well, better option by far than i mentioned of the giving your account info out to people.
something like what this site try to sell, have been tried before, iirc there were a site called buy a friend or something along those lines - were more like a dating site for gamers though.
The sadness...
Lazy people will always keep RMT services in business.
My SWTOR referral link for those wanting to give the game a try. (Newbies get a welcome package while returning players get a few account upgrades to help with their preferred status.)
https://www.ashesofcreation.com/ref/Callaron/
jesteralways said:
So now you guys are advertising an RMT site?
Same tune, different day.We were sent a press release that seemed suited to open up an interesting discussion. Seriously, people need to get over the "you get paid to advertise" thing. It doesn't happen. It is merely a point of discussion.
Who says anything about "paid advertisement" anyway? As I see it, this is RMT in sort of power leveling mould and you guys are kinda promoting their site. And "merely for discussion"? Why the link then?
If they had put the focus on the free part that is mentioned above and treat the paid for service as an afterthought people wouldnt be so wound up about it.
The issue is that as games become more of a showcase for snowflakes the idea that some one can buy the same shinise that another person has worked for is an antithesis to the competitive side of gaming. The issue here is that games already cater to players of differing skill levels, and players who are not able to compete at the highest level feel like they are "missing" part of their purchase. They want to have the banners around their portrait, the titles after their character name or the shinies. So the Market is there.
Is it ethical, well only as much as any other secondary service is, Is it Ethical to own a dog and pay some one else to walk it for you? Sure, but its not exactly the same as there isnt a competition between players for bragging rights with this.
All in all the "Debate" is tenious, I mean on the one hand its pay to win, on the other its a secondary service, players have been buying mount runs in mmos for aslong as I can remember with in game currency, the only difference is, you now dont even need to play the game that much.
All in all, not something I would use, if I am not able to get something for my self, I dont want it, but I can see there is a niche that might go for it... after all, certain F2P companies have made entire games profitable out of this premise.
A large part of the enjoyment of any "game" to me is success and failure based on my own merits, within the parameters and constraints of the "games' creators". I... have no idea what else there is to enjoy about a mmo... maybe being "powerful" when in real life one feels so "powerless"... There are plenty of ways to "cheat" in real life, and hey, in a perverse way that sort of makes sense. Translated into gaming, though, it's just...sad.
They're just games.
letting another person play your MMO, because all that matters to you is not the community, or lore, or adventure, or engaging gameplay, but getting to max level as fast as possible with the help of some shady site that will probably steal your CC info
these sites are an extension of the F2P model, where all that matters is personal progress, and you are just a peon with a credit card in a stupid rat race
and the fact this is even tolerated in today's MMO, is because today's MMO no longer have a working community, you are not a persona, you are a number with a CC card, and you are judged within the game, not by your actions, but by how much you spend with your VISA card
How is this any different than selling gold for real world money? Or buying a decked out toon for real world money?
By 1987 - 1990 with the likes of the Amiga 500/ Atari st / 386 and 486 every mag had at least 4-5 pages of these adds.
Rmt stinks it always has, but what smells even more is when a well known mmo site starts to advertise them.