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Game Developers On Gold Selling
Eurogamer has an article which takes a look at how various game companies deal with gold spammers in their games. Some, like Mythic, take a hard stance, literally telling farmers and sellers to "go to hell." Others engage in an arms race to block such behavior, sometimes to the detriment of normal users. "In fact, a former Jagex source tells me that when Jagex banned all IPs connected to gold selling, 'they lost 10 per cent of their membership, and still haven't recovered in terms of numbers since they did it two years ago. Even though they have almost stopped gold selling in RuneScape, it has cost them two million active accounts; i.e. there were four million players, there are now two million players, of which less than one million actually subscribe.'" Still more companies are experimenting with real money trading (RMT) to at least establish some control and security over the situation.
The only reason why these companies should be pissed is because it saves the users time, thereby possibly shorting their monthly subscription.
Yeah, I only pay for two days of my monthly subscription.
It smells alot like sudden "morality" of gambling, sex, and drugs. Governments don't want you to buy it unless you're buying it from them. Then it's A-Okay
I wish my government would sell me sex and drugs, it's quite frustrating and highly inneficient having to troll 4chan to figure out where the back channels are. Judging from your insight, I guess the first step is to replace our current one with a game company.
Also,
Your moms A-Okay.
Sometimes this means they've got their bots out keeping a given zone completely barren of mobs, so that any actual players who want to do anything in the zone are unable to do so.
In four years I've never seen it or heard of it.
Sometimes it means that the gold sellers flood the auction house with the items they have farmed up, meaning that any legitimate player who wants to sell some items for a bit of gold can't do so because the going rate for those items is so low that they can't turn a profit.
That's counter productive on the farmers part. Why would they want to sell it super cheap rather than the actual market price? Makes no sense.
On the flip side, the people who have bought gold now have so much money that the market price for other (non-farmable) items goes through the roof, meaning that honest players can't afford the things they want.
No. If it's overpriced, less people will buy it and the price will go down.
It sounds like you actually have a problem with people cornering markets, not gold farmers.
Also, shame on you for making up that anecdote about your friend. They don't need your account info to trade gold (it's either mailed or you put up a shitty item on the auction house for whatever amount of gold you bought). Or your friend is certifiably retarded.
I'm guessing you played an MMO, sucked at it, and quit.
Let's take a body-builder for example. That would be pretty damn tough to do right? Nope! It's just picking up weights and putting them down!
Nothing has inherent value. Nice try though, sorry you were so bad at MMO's D: