Weigruf on 03 September 2011
| NinjaV said: When real world money is involved with other games it's considered cheating, Guild Wars for example will ban you if they find out, I tried buying off one of those sites for guild wars ( i know i'm so bad I was 14 and I wanted good shit!) and I was banned about a day and a half later. I am against this because I realize how cheap this really is, for example.. you see someone in the game with some incredible armor..who cares?They probably bought it anyway it takes the fun away from the game of going out questing and actually finding the items/gear yourself. Plus people can probably just buy themselves to the top right away some 13 year olds will just bug their parents for their credit cards and buy everything they need. The only way the auction house would make sense is if you could only buy stuff with the gold you found in game no real money involved, then that would be fun and it wouldn't ruin the experience as much. |
I can somewhat understand the desire (I am not defending it though--I'm against gold farmer items all the time) to buy an item or gold for any triple-A MMORPG out there but I cannot understand why someone would like to do the same for a cooperative online CRPG like Guild Wars. Sounds very strange to me.
Also, any auction house would make sense if the items sold there were items generated by legit in-game mechanisms by players playing the damn game.
You are making some good points with those lazy kids ruining the in-game market and the overall experience for the other legit players but unfortunately you cannot avoid them. Note also that most of the time they aren't kids but men at their mid 20s-late 30s.
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