On a personal note, I know someone who works in an inner city school and the stories I hear are simply awful. People who have no business being within a mile of children are spawning at unhealthy rates. This is for a number of reasons but one is because there is a culture in this country that seeks not to judge anyone. Well guess what - I will. If you're a single mother, you made a mistake. I don't support your decision and I think the world would be a better place if abortions were forced upon you. Just the other night I saw on the news a 19 year old girl who had 3 children and was being brought up on child neglect charges. It is simply sickening. Society, as a whole, needs to tell these swine that if you have that many children and that young of an age, you are the scum of the Earth and the planet would be better off without you. I am sick and tired of supporting someone else's mistake. And of course, those 3 children will grow up to either steal my car, have children they can't support just like their mother, or both.
Wow...just wow. Better hope you never have a child that makes a mistake, or a grandchild, sister, brother, friend, etc. Then again, judging from the venom in your post, you might be happy to pull the trigger yourself. Don't get me wrong, there is a problem that exists, I just don't think executing offenders is the best solution. Then again...
I'm sick and tired of supporting people 65+ that I'll never meet, all the while knowing that I'll very likely not see the benefits of the program I dump thousands of dollars into every year. So lets kill old people, all they do is soak up money from the productive people and take up space for the new generations. Some of these leeches go on and get benefits for 30, 40, 50 years!!! All the while they contribute NOTHING to the economy! It's ridiculous! Off with their heads! Hope your grandparents are already dead, otherwise it might be a sad goodbye. But, it's for the best, so chin up. Take it like true patriot.
On a more serious note; some people are so quick to snuff the lives of others, until suddenly their decision comes to effect them or someone they know. Before you suggest any kind of edict, stop and think for a second if you think it would be fair and just if it happened to someone you considered yourself friendly to. Because it's not just going to effect the very limited range of "scum" that you've probably seen, but not really met.
The main reason people playing the game don't want to have cash transactions is because it then screws up the in game economy. Over time it can get to the point where you HAVE to acquire "good" items through ebay or invest many, many more hours into acquiring the wealth needed to purchase the items in game.
Lets assume a few things: selling/buying on ebay is okay, it takes 2 hours to make 10 gold. The going price on ebay is $20 for 10 gold. There is always a reasonable demand for 10 gold at $20. If you can pretty reliably make $200 for selling 100 gold, putting in 20 hours of "work" there will be a large number of people who do this for extra cash. People who previously wouldn't have really cared about "farming" tons of money in the game will begin to inject large amounts of gold into the in game economy. In game prices will increase, causing the value of 10 gold to drop. So now it takes 20 gold for $20, even more gold will be farmed and sold, and the cycle keeps repeating.
Same goes for items. You find some great item that was selling for around 200 gold in game, now you can put it on ebay for $400. However, this will not likely put more of the item into the game since items tend to be on a "timer" of sorts. Only one of X item will drop every 5000 kills, or only one every week, etc. More and more of the rare "good" items will only be available through ebay. They'll never see the in game market.
They can't stop 100% of the sales, but taking them off ebay will prevent them from being readily accessible to a very large portion of the player base. Giving Blizzard the power to legally shut down ebay-clone sites (independent auction sites that use cash) that are selling items/money from their games will prevent another large portion of players from participating. There will always be some transactions between small groups, friends, or in more underground channels; but if they can put a stop to 75% or more of the sales it will keep the in game economy from being wrecked quickly.
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On a personal note, I know someone who works in an inner city school and the stories I hear are simply awful. People who have no business being within a mile of children are spawning at unhealthy rates. This is for a number of reasons but one is because there is a culture in this country that seeks not to judge anyone. Well guess what - I will. If you're a single mother, you made a mistake. I don't support your decision and I think the world would be a better place if abortions were forced upon you. Just the other night I saw on the news a 19 year old girl who had 3 children and was being brought up on child neglect charges. It is simply sickening. Society, as a whole, needs to tell these swine that if you have that many children and that young of an age, you are the scum of the Earth and the planet would be better off without you. I am sick and tired of supporting someone else's mistake. And of course, those 3 children will grow up to either steal my car, have children they can't support just like their mother, or both.
Wow...just wow. Better hope you never have a child that makes a mistake, or a grandchild, sister, brother, friend, etc. Then again, judging from the venom in your post, you might be happy to pull the trigger yourself. Don't get me wrong, there is a problem that exists, I just don't think executing offenders is the best solution. Then again...
I'm sick and tired of supporting people 65+ that I'll never meet, all the while knowing that I'll very likely not see the benefits of the program I dump thousands of dollars into every year. So lets kill old people, all they do is soak up money from the productive people and take up space for the new generations. Some of these leeches go on and get benefits for 30, 40, 50 years!!! All the while they contribute NOTHING to the economy! It's ridiculous! Off with their heads! Hope your grandparents are already dead, otherwise it might be a sad goodbye. But, it's for the best, so chin up. Take it like true patriot.
On a more serious note; some people are so quick to snuff the lives of others, until suddenly their decision comes to effect them or someone they know. Before you suggest any kind of edict, stop and think for a second if you think it would be fair and just if it happened to someone you considered yourself friendly to. Because it's not just going to effect the very limited range of "scum" that you've probably seen, but not really met.
The main reason people playing the game don't want to have cash transactions is because it then screws up the in game economy. Over time it can get to the point where you HAVE to acquire "good" items through ebay or invest many, many more hours into acquiring the wealth needed to purchase the items in game.
Lets assume a few things: selling/buying on ebay is okay, it takes 2 hours to make 10 gold. The going price on ebay is $20 for 10 gold. There is always a reasonable demand for 10 gold at $20. If you can pretty reliably make $200 for selling 100 gold, putting in 20 hours of "work" there will be a large number of people who do this for extra cash. People who previously wouldn't have really cared about "farming" tons of money in the game will begin to inject large amounts of gold into the in game economy. In game prices will increase, causing the value of 10 gold to drop. So now it takes 20 gold for $20, even more gold will be farmed and sold, and the cycle keeps repeating.
Same goes for items. You find some great item that was selling for around 200 gold in game, now you can put it on ebay for $400. However, this will not likely put more of the item into the game since items tend to be on a "timer" of sorts. Only one of X item will drop every 5000 kills, or only one every week, etc. More and more of the rare "good" items will only be available through ebay. They'll never see the in game market.
They can't stop 100% of the sales, but taking them off ebay will prevent them from being readily accessible to a very large portion of the player base. Giving Blizzard the power to legally shut down ebay-clone sites (independent auction sites that use cash) that are selling items/money from their games will prevent another large portion of players from participating. There will always be some transactions between small groups, friends, or in more underground channels; but if they can put a stop to 75% or more of the sales it will keep the in game economy from being wrecked quickly.