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EVE Online's Fight Against Currency Farmers

Posted by Soulskill on from the stay-away-from-those-pitchforks dept.

Massively has a writeup discussing the way CCP Games is battling ISK-farmers in EVE Online (ISK is the game's currency). The developers felt that merely banning sellers whenever they could was not enough, so they introduced a system where players could purchase game-time codes that could then be sold within the game to other players. Since players are unlikely to give up buying ISK voluntarily, CCP's thought is that they can at least keep the money and currency distributed among the real players. Some of the player-base has been critical of the plan, but it's becoming more and more popular as time goes on — and the old ISK-sellers aren't pleased.

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  1. How lucky we are to bother ourselves with this by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This kind of petty problem is a luxury for us to fret over. I'm not going to say we should give all our money away and live like monks or that we should be depressed all the time because someone somewhere is suffering, but worrying about how some gamer will be enjoying a game less because someone else is buying their way to the top of the rankings? Well, that's really something to be thankful for.

    Taiwan has recently been hit with a devastating typhoon. Some of the pictures show devastation similar to New Orleans after Katrina.

    So, yeah, I'm glad I live here where I can worry about some schmuck in his basement spending his allowance on Eve Online and not over there where landslides are causing whole towns to disappear.

    1. Re:How lucky we are to bother ourselves with this by ArtemaOne · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Hell yeah!

    2. Re:How lucky we are to bother ourselves with this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      What I wouldn't give for some Offtopic mod points right now.

      Look, the economic microcosm of online games isn't a good stage for comparing the inequities of life.

      If you feel that way, fine; but this isn't the forum for that. This is a forum for discussing the article.

      Go start your own article on your topic of choice and submit it to slashdot, if you want to argue about something else.

    3. Re:How lucky we are to bother ourselves with this by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Not counting this post, as of the time I write this reply to you, a full 40% of the comments in this article are about the topic I brought up in my original comment.

      Maybe you find discussing currency farming something worthy of discussion. Good for you. I'm glad you find it to be so. I don't think I said anything to the contrary in my original post.

      So let's recap. My post is about the topic in question. My post is one of the most-commented upon in this whole thread. And my post is fully at the mercy of the moderators, who while attractive and successful, are smart and well-skilled at sexual arts.

      So double-dumbass on you too.

    4. Re:How lucky we are to bother ourselves with this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      If he'd slipped a kdawson comment into the middle of his comment, would you have let it slide?