Jayge at attentionallfriends.blogspot.com writes:
Today, I'm talking about gold buying. No, not the $1,000 per ounce commodity that commercials don't shut up about. I'm talking about WoW gold. Guild Wars gold. FFXI gold. Runescape gold. The kind you pay real money for. The fake kind.
To those of you familiar with the Massively Multiplayer Online scene, you should be aware of this process. For those of you who don't, it goes a little something like this:
Player feels a little down. Player decides "hey, lets get a shiny new sword!". Player isn't the wealthiest (insert any MMO) player. Player gets message from (insert Asian gold-farming company here). Player decides "hey, I've got 15 bucks! lets get some gold!". Player buys gold. Another one bites the dust.
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To be fair, there are also human made games that release and lack any fun at all either.
Guild Wars 2 been playing for 14yrs, 1st beta. This is just one company I support, Arenanet and NCSoft, even though I torrent, there are a few PC companies I will buy from. "PlayStation’s Horizon MMO spin-off, Horizon Steel Frontiers." I feel this will be good, NCSoft is a good developer/publisher.
It’s a tool. Use it elevate things and get it done faster. I’m sorry but not every game made by humans is good. If this can help things, then I fully embrace it.
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Spambots are killing all the major MMO economies.
Even after Runescape changed its rules I still saw spambots.
Plus now the game barely has any fun factor anymore.
BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW WWWWWW!
If you play EVE online you'll see this all too often. ISK (EVE currency) sellers spam the public rooms, send you ingame mail, then send you email. Funny thing is, the people who would likely consider buying the money (inexperienced) are the ones who'd end up blowing it and be broke again right afterwards.
The limiting trial accounts didn't help out at all it seems. I still get multiple PMs a day from gold sellers/power levelers. That and their spamming in major cities. Seriously if you buy gold gtfo.
I'll admit I have bought gold before, back in the days when I used to play WoW. The basic way I justified was actually quite simple. Gold farming is tedious, boring, and in no way fun for me. And back in the day it could take 10 hours to get 100 gold. Some could do it in a shorter amount some took longer but basically it took at least a day. However I could simply work at in a job for an two hours and have enough to buy 200 gold. It's cheating to be sure on my part, to hell if I'm going to send all that time on fake money.