That may be a description of your reasons to debate Mark. After 5 posts cluttering a topic about which you profess not to care, it sounds about right. (assuming of course that you're not a red herring) But some of us post because we actually care ab…
MarkWalt - "You might have a better time getting converts if you take the intellectual high road..."
Heh, you really are new here. Sorry to make fun, but intellectual debate on these forums starves. "I LIK CHEESE" tends to go over much better.
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I can remember a time when I found ebayers merely repugnant. It's a holdover attitude from single-player games, where the cheats only hurt themselves.
But we eventually run into one too many farmers, one too many unearned toons, one too many ballo…
Another ebayer joins the mix, and another honest player leaves. That's the story of the mmorpg.com forums.
Obviously cheats are going to have their fansites too. But as long as you're squatting on a generic domain name, you're going to get visits …
CoH isn't affected by out-of-game trading because it has no game economy.
That's not an answer, that's just another example of how profit farmers damage MMOGs; in this case by convincing developers to take these kinds of extreme measures to keep t…
"you make a serious inquiring with them about a poll and then get "sell-out" in at the end? That was rather ignorant. Next time you might want to try actually being polite, you might find you get more responses that way."
You know as well as I do …
Point to one, all I've ever found are the ignored complaints. And why is there still no poll to see what your membership thinks of your sellout?
Out-of-game trading is one of the most contentious issues in the MMOG player community today, but mmor…
Where have you responded? I've yet to see a single staff response to this subject myself.
Your dismissive attitude toward honest gamers is disgusting. This really is nothing more than a site for cheats and farmers.
"...not everyone agrees that it is cheating."
Gaining an advantage in a game by violating it's agreed upon rules is cheating. That's not an opinion, it's the definition of the word.
Farmers and ebayers (and sleazy fan-sites) may rationalize and …
Watching the steady corruption of gamers resources has been pretty discouraging. Sometimes I wonder if the day is coming when all our news looks like OGaming.coms pre-scripted interview with IGE. You can't really trust anything you read on a site th…
In response to the question about my motives. I imagine the answer is the same as why this subject keeps popping up, and it mostly has to do with that ugly IGE banner up at the top of the page.
There was a lot of rhetoric from the mmorpg.com staff…
He didn't say "staunch supporters of IGE," he said "staunch supporters of IGE to do what they want." A bit different.
I would agree that changes are happening. My own sense is that the average gamer is just getting more seasoned on this topic. She…
Your reply is nonsensical. Out-of-game sales still only represent 10-15% of gamers, the majority doesn't participate.
Obviously, those players that are goofy enough to pay their way through a game do represent a fantastic cash crop. And publishers…
"So whats the issue then? If developers can sell items like IGE or Enott's does it make it ok to do so?"
Different games, different rules.
Throwing a check on someone is legal in hocky, but not in basketball. It'd be silly to argue the point of …
"It has gone beyond right and wrong and turned into an acceptable practice to buy gold or a rare item. This isnt changing or stopping so either get used to it or just stop playing online games."
If it's such an 'accepted' practice, why are so many…
In a multiplayer PvP game, when anybody cheats it affects all players.
I don't buy from ebayers, noone in my guild buys from ebayers. But that doesn't help the fact that we're still faced with the growing problems of inflation, farmers, and artifi…
Originally posted by Fadeus
Originally posted by Relent
No mmog fansite with an IGE banner can claim to be ethical.
As for bias, isn't that the point of this thread? They've openly declared a bias. They are justifying it, (and I agree with…
I formally announce that I will be suing the users of mouring board for saying that "MMORPG sleeps with IGN!".
I think you might be better off using cut-and-paste when you quote. Did you mean? "mmorpg.com is in bed with IGE." It would make a bit m…
Originally posted by darkkaizer
"Well this doesnt surprise me, MMORPG.com is a fansite that holds grudges, simple as that. I'm sure if WoW had people in it's forums posting that kind of crap it would be deleted like that and the writer banned for …
Originally posted by gargantroo
News orginizations are very biast and unethical. So if MMORPG.com is being biased and unethical (which they arent) I say it is one step closer to being a real news orginization
No mmog fansite with an IG…