Seriously, I dont get why so much of the aggression is against the gold farmers/sellers. The real issue should be with the people actually doing the buying. If there was noone buying gold/characters etc then there would be no farmers. In my opinion the farmers themselves are the least to blame. Sure, the actual process of farming is screwing up some rich american's(or korean's, or whoever's) precious hobby, but from their point of view - what do they care? If it means they can put food on the table then im sure that that is their imperative.
If there weren't any lazy fuckos out there spending such a vast amounts of money on gold then there really wouldnt be any problems with the game economies being fucked over. If there have to be witch-hunts against RMT then I think a much more useful approach would be to vilify the selfish buyers than the farmers who are just trying to earn a wage.
NAME AND SHAME THE BUYERS! Nothing like a good old fashioned McCarthy-era witch-hunt;)
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Seriously, I dont get why so much of the aggression is against the gold farmers/sellers. The real issue should be with the people actually doing the buying. If there was noone buying gold/characters etc then there would be no farmers. In my opinion the farmers themselves are the least to blame. Sure, the actual process of farming is screwing up some rich american's(or korean's, or whoever's) precious hobby, but from their point of view - what do they care? If it means they can put food on the table then im sure that that is their imperative.
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If there weren't any lazy fuckos out there spending such a vast amounts of money on gold then there really wouldnt be any problems with the game economies being fucked over. If there have to be witch-hunts against RMT then I think a much more useful approach would be to vilify the selfish buyers than the farmers who are just trying to earn a wage.
NAME AND SHAME THE BUYERS! Nothing like a good old fashioned McCarthy-era witch-hunt