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Why you're wrong:
Source : http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/ebusiness/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=218101859 It is now illegal in China to buy/sell gold. It is estimates that between 80% and 85% of gold farmers are based in China. "[M]any online games have a virtual economy and an in-game currency," he states in his survey. "Gold farmers can play in-game to make some currency. They then sell that for real money -- typically via a Web site and using the PayPal payment system -- to other players of the game." Game companies typically forbid gold farming but committed virtual currency traders find ways around such rules. Some game companies have recognized the futility of trying to ban the practice and have built virtual commerce into their game infrastructure.
In any typical 2 - 4 hour game session I would receive between 20 - 40 Tells to purchase gold and see between 50 - 100 buy gold messages in general chat. As a gamer the unsolicited tells have made me stop playing a number of MMO's as these MMO's after many complaints did not take appropriate action to have these people stopped. Accordingly they have lost a customer. Therefore this can NOT be good for the MMO's business and I am sure there are many others who have left these same games because of this very issue.
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How do they ruin the ecconimy of the game its people who place items on the AH for their alts to buy that ruin the ecconmiy. Many a game I have started playing taking my new charcter to the AH to buy some starter gear only to see low lvl items going for unheard of prices that no starting chacter could afford but high lvl alts could is that fair? I have no problem buying gold have done it before and will do it again. Now if I am playing a game that has a fair market not inflated buy chacter alt buying then I do not Aion while I played had equipment I could buy with the gold that I got and did not have unreal pricing but as I siad that was when I played. |
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