Originally posted by Zarynterk

Originally posted by razerblade29

Originally posted by Zarynterk

Originally posted by razerblade29

Originally posted by Zarynterk

Originally posted by Tisiphone

 And now I'm thinking, Zarynterk, that your suggestion of selling gold, while expeditious and certainly painless, might not be, in a matter of speaking, the American way. The gold stays where it is. We're gonna farm the mobs!

 

 

Dont get me started on the American way... If we look at how this country was founded and upon whos back it was built... Gold Farming is 100% American...historically speaking, of course not the romanticized way we would like it to be.

With that im assuming u mean slaves. Yes america had slaves for a longtime, and so has every nation/empire/kingdom/ruling body, in the history of our species

 

 

Correct, the Spanish and Portugese basically started the slave trade in America, not the evil white man as some may think. But again it proves the point that gold farming is much like any other industry to the dawn of time. As long as there is a market, it will survive.

 

I agree it will survive, but it doesnt have to survive of Slaves/Bots or "sweatshops" making 10 cents an hour wile u get charged 1 dollar a day for room and board

 

 

Lol where is your outrage for all out-sourcing companies then. For the ten year olds making Nikes. Of I forgot...it doesnt effect your virtual world, only the real one.

Well I dont wear nike so im not supporting them am I, but yeah it sucks and the only people who can stop it are the companies that out source or the foreign governments to stop taking in outsourced jobs at such a reduced amount, but that of course wont happen because their governement/foreign bussiness care more about the profit than they do their labor forces.

so basically the workers should all VIVA LA REVOLUTION and demand more wages.

Originally posted by xiirot

I fail to see a legitimate reason for Gold Farmers / Sellers.

 

Gold Farmers / Sellers place items on the AH for ludicrous prices. Then the players are forced (FORCED) to spend their hard-earned cash just to get that new piece of armor that sells at the vendor for a fraction of the cost the Gold Farmers / Sellers are charging.

 

Gold Farmers / Sellers ruin games. Period. End of story.

agreed. just take a look at aion. its been out for month and already everything on the AH is beyond crazy. it at the point now that normal people like cant buy anything now becuase it just costs too much. gold farmers ruin games. period

This is so sad.  These days it seems people do not play games for having fun. The world is full of big time losers.

Originally posted by Zarynterk

Originally posted by xiirot

I fail to see a legitimate reason for Gold Farmers / Sellers.

 

Gold Farmers / Sellers place items on the AH for ludicrous prices. Then the players are forced (FORCED) to spend their hard-earned cash just to get that new piece of armor that sells at the vendor for a fraction of the cost the Gold Farmers / Sellers are charging.

 

Gold Farmers / Sellers ruin games. Period. End of story.

 

 

It is 100% Capitalism at its best, plain and simple and companies do it every day. Why is it that American companies fail everytime they attempt to run a gold farming site... cost of labor. Just like fortune 500 companies that send jobs overseas for cheaper labor.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_%28pricing_policy%29

Sudden influx of any product, without an equivalent increase in demand for that product, will result in devaluation of such product. Meaning, if gold farmers suddenly start pumping up gold into the economy, that gold will be devalued quickly. That in turn will drastically raise prices, making low level players broke and unable to purchase ordinary commodities.

So yes, gold farming does actually hurt the economy and people. Burn in hell, gold farmers/hackers/scammers/crackers/leet speakers/elitists.

i like gold farmers, they've saved me hours of boring pointless meaningless typical repetitive pve

thank you kind under payed poor english speaking gold farmers, today we salute you!

honestly, 80% of guilds are usually self sufficient

Why you're wrong:

• It breaks the terms and conditions of play of most MMO's i.e. it is illegal to buy/sell gold in those games.

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.

• I do not wish to have direct TELLS or  main chat spammed at me everytime I log into play to purchase gold.

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.

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.