My take on farming, nerfing and bots

This has probably already been said countless times, but it bears repeating considering the outcry of nerfs with the latest patch. Ahem...

DON'T BUY IN-GAME PROPERTY WITH REAL MONEY. PERIOD.

Ironically, the people who need to hear this the most probably aren't scanning these fine forums for help on getting through the game. They're on Ebay, Yahoo Auctions, or wherever buying their damn loot from a sleazy bot farmer.

It would behoove us to hang in with ANet while they attempt to weed out the scum from among us. Hopefully, they'll get the picture that, while there are nasty evil toons out there looking to loot the game for real world profit, the majority of us are just trying to have a fun time playing a great game.

And hopefully ANet will eventually reverse the nerfs and make the "legal" farming fun again.

I'm happy to see you are so hopeful, but I've lost hope. Area net would rather punish the rest of us than nail these guys.

I know they are trying, but it ain't working.

what do you need money so badly for? nothing costs anything...sure if you want that max dmg +15 >50hp fellblade you're gonna have to shell out some dough for it...but guess what the collector gives you the same weapon...only it isn't a fellblade....this game is not about money...money is very much secondary and because of that there is no need to farm. They nerf farming areas because you DON'T NEED TO FARM.

I don't think the farming is about need. If ever I attempt farming (which I rarely do -- always get myself killed before I get to any good stuff), I'm doing it for the sheer fun of finding a cool drop. Diablo 2 taught us that getting cool items AT RANDOM was what keeps it exciting and interesting after the story's all over.

No, diablo 2 taught us that if you played since the first day and gambled on rings at level 5 that you could net 40 Stones of Jordan per day and sell them on Ebay.

1st of all its illegal, 2nd it is cheap.

Is this what it ends up being? A race to be the richest faster than anyone else? Money equals power, eh?

Let me say that I played D2 to find the cool drops for myself. I rarely traded and experimented with the H Cube all the time just to see what I would get. That's what was fun for me. And I know that it's what made the game fun for many others. Isn't that what RPGs are about: advance your character, find cool stuff, kill bad guys? At least that's what draws me.

I imagine there are dozens of ways to justify breaking the rules of the game just to succeed. Unfortunately, they rarely if ever translate to the real world. So what are we teaching ourselves? Or are we just trying to "get away with" something we know would harm us when we step outside?

Geez, some people really need to rediscover the fun again and stop treating the game like work.

...except the devs. The game IS work for them. That's just the way it is.