WAR (Warhammer Online)

Here is Mark on the subject

"Mark Jacobs made a post in response to question of RMT;

Folks,

Gee, apparently there has been a miscommunication somewhere along the line, I don't hate the companies that trade in gold selling against the wishes of the developers. Nope, I really don't. I despise them, loathe them, detest them with every fiber of my being. WAR is coming and you can read that anyway you want to.

Back in my first MUD (Aradath in the mid 80s), if a player broke the rules I would occasionally hold a "trial" and then mete out punishment. Maybe we should do something like that for WAR, only no trial and lots of punishment. Mel Brooks had it right in History of the World Part I (" have no regard for the peasants? They are my people! I am their sovereign! I love them. Pull!" and the peasant going flying up into the air). Wouldn't that be a nice way to treat the sellers? Characters flying into the air and being shot it by players for gold. Turnabout is fair play and fun eh?

Mark "

Will they be thinking about this when it comes time to Issue free trials and such? Make a seperate zone and stuff for them and lvl caps and some trade ,chat restrictions?
 

If he's being literal, it sounds like he's going down the Star Wars Galaxies lane of making gold sellers kill on sight. It doesn't make much sense to me as they would still be able to spam tells, and the spammers probably aren't the characters with the gold so there's no point being able to loot them.

...and in worst case scenario it could turn into "pay me 10 dolla and you can kill me untill you have lotso gold".

On the other hand he could be figurative, meaning they'll do what everyone else is doing, which is trying to stop RMT by banning accounts left and right. And which is pretty useless as these guys are making more than enough money both through RMT and through credit card scams to buy new accounts. New accounts, which bring profit to the MMO owner btw *tinfoil hat moment*

The only way to beat RMT is to have a free item system like PlanetSide, where there is no ingame credits and everything you need can be aquired, but that wouldn't fit into any MMORPG I can think of off the top of my head.

Overall I'm not a market-whore, achievement chaser or item hog so I could care less for inflaction and RMT, but his colourful reply sparked enough interest to comment here :P

I'm sure he was speaking figuratively. He just wanted to stress how much gold sellers disgust him. One of the reasons I love Mark.

Despite all of this, i would say its nearly impossible to stop all gold selling, every other popular MMO has it and WAR will be no different wait a couple of weeks after release and you will be able to purchase currency from some RMT company. And the spamming will start as well, at the end of the day its OUR FAULT the players that buy the gold really, we make it so its actually profitable to just get a couple of accounts spam the hell out of it and get banned.

The only way to for these companies to make a loss while getting banned is if people dont buy currency but that wont happen.

didn't they hire an outside company (punkbuster) to deal with gold selling scumbags or is it just hackers and such?

Well with his distaste for RMT you better think twice before participating in RMT, that's for sure!  I'm sure they will be banning accounts left and right to preserve the integrity of WAR. 

Talk is cheap. No developer wants their economy screwed up and game flooded with farmers, yet they are evrywhere aren't they?

Dark Age of Camelot was a huge game for RMT.

Time will tell. But I doubt they will keep the game from this market.

If you have played the game, and you can tell me one reason why you would EVER need to buy gold in this game then I will call you a liar.

The only problem I can see is powerleveling but the game is more fun than any other MMO from the start to finish and missing out on that would just be stupid.

Originally posted by abyss610

didn't they hire an outside company (punkbuster) to deal with gold selling scumbags or is it just hackers and such?

Yes punkbuster will be in-game.

Originally posted by ProfRed

If you have played the game, and you can tell me one