General Discussion

I've never had a reason to buy gold...but I would say it depends, maybe one day I will...I'll never buy from gold farmers, though.

What concerns me more about is that all player's stuffs are kept in the server. The server should take full responsibility to keep all player's treasures safet. If the server roll back? The game need to consider about possibly loss came from the game side. 

If a game involved real money, for instance, use real money to buy game coin then the game also need to provide service allow player to change coin back to cash. By then, I think there is no problem to buy game coin or change coin back to cash.

But such game maybe categoize as mature game or even gambling as well.

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).

never!

why even play if you have to buy in game gold.

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.

Originally posted by thirdechelon

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 :p.

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.

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.