Ebay or not Ebay, that is the question.

Don't do it its a waste of money

Here is the answer to your problem in 5 steps.

1.Search Farming

2.Learn Basic Farming

3.Practice Farming

4.Find your own new place to Farm that works best with your build.

5.Quit complaining about not having money.

2 dollars? I can find that in my couch... If you want to do it whatever. Just be aware of the concequences.

Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.

Arthur Ashe

Well I'm at work and its kinda slow so I thought I'd search for some GW info via my usual google, and as I scroll I see a Ebay page. So i check it out.. 1300 and 1 things for sale. 95 % of it gold!

LINK
http://search.ebay.com/Guild-Wars_Vi...eZGuildQ2bWars

Now As I see it isn't that illegal? I mean they are making a profit from Anet property. Can't something be done about it? I makes me wanna puke. cause you know some F*ckin little bastard with a net work is got like 10 copies of GW and running all the bots to farm gold. Now farm for gold I don't have a problem with ( Its a nessary evil sometimes.) But to do something like run a bunch of computers to get gold to sell on ebay well that just burns my ass. I mean WTF is the purpose of playing the game if your going to CHEAT. Not to mention drive up the prices and all the other effects. So all the legit players who have 63 gold ATM. can't afford to take a sh*t. I mean should'nt something be done about this? Anyway I know this has been posted somewhere before but i thought i'd add the link and what i think the gold sellers are violating. <--see below

Off the GW webpage

However, we permit the use of our game world and our characters in literary or musical pieces intended for personal use only, such as those posted on or released through a non-profit website, as long as such usage does not fall outside the parameters established in the first item on this document. We do not permit the unauthorized use of our game world, our characters, or any other elements of our game in any form that involves profit or commercial benefit, such as novels, short stories, articles, screenplays, action figures, theatrical productions, or other adaptations of our game.

Anyway just my thought

Fubar121

But look at it this way, unlike other games, gold in this game is worthless. So no one undeserving is going to buy it.

Yes, ANET should go after those people and unnerf the drops

-Diomedes

I continue to buy things every day with gold, can you tell me why exactly gold is worthless?

-Diomedes

its kind of hard to go after the people themselves, since they're selling the "time they put into aquiring the gold" and not the gold itself. the best they can do is have ebay shut down those auctions

Because if you farm for like a week, or if you win HoH for a week, you can have more gold then you'll ever need? I mean, I've bought about ten or so 15k ascenscion armours, and I still got 600k gold just from 2 weeks of sigil hunting. What would I need gold for? Arrows?

If there wasn't people buying the gold, then there wouldn't a problem.
Evidently it's a big business, but there needs to be a demand for it.

This is completely legal. They want money for the time spent collecting it; not selling actual property, but time.

well there is more then gold, ebay name tinaturtle982 ( 326Feedback score is 100 to 499)
is selling a HUGE amount of weapons for up to $75.00 a piece! but there is this little disclamer on it "All characters, items and Gold in "Guild Wars" are the property of NCsoft Entertainment Inc.. This auction is not for the ownership of intellectual property owned NCsoft Entertainment Inc. but for the time and effort spent in providing this gaming service, all items are and will remain the property of NCsoft Entertainment Inc.. By bidding on this auction you are stating that you are in no way affiliated with NCsoft Entertainment Inc.. "Guild Wars" is a trademark of NCsoft Entertainment Inc.. All registered names and trademarks are properties of their respective owners."

guess that makes it ok?

Ok so they are selling there time. But you get the GOLD which is as i read it still property of anet. Anyone a lawyer? want to clarifiy the eula? about selling the time spent getting gold. I not a legal smart person but as far i can see the gold is still property of anet is it not?

Good point. I'm sure Guild Wars is aware of this, but you might want to give them some info. They could sue ebay technically. After all the courts are starting to come down on people who let their services/software/etc be used illegally. Look at how the US Supreme Court overturned the Betamax ruling over p2p software.

Personally I think ebay should have the pants sued off them.

So if I pay a hooker for her time and just happen to get the sex, that's legal then?

If gold is worthless in guild wars, what other games are gold considered worthy? and why?

WoW to a point, and some other MMORPGs. It's not that they won't become useless ever, but rather since the grind takes so much more, the gold retains it's value longer. Guild Wars, you can get everything within weeks if you are good and know the right people.

Personally I think this is a GREAT thing...

It may "sicken" you, but not everyone playes the game ffor the same reasons thay you might, man.

MMOs are played by a wide variety of people and NOT just people that can afford to take the time to "farm for a week" or level a character up to the point where they can do the HoH. I've seen deals for like 300k Gold for less than $7 RWD (real-world dollars), which I have to tell you is VERY tempting for a player like me that only plays like 2-3 times a WEEK and then only for a few hours, and who is constantly low on money and crafting materials. I blow more than $7 any time I walk in a Starbucks, so that ammount of real cash is less than pcoket change, and if I can find a seller that can deliver within 15 minutes of making the Paypal sale, well, I call that "good customer servce". I think the game publishers fear this sort of thing because they know full well that there's no way in hell thet they'd ever figure out a way to match that level of service (that's not a slam, BTW, I just know the realities of the biz).

Seeing as how other MMOs are actually setting up their own IN GAME AUCTION SPACES that allow people to purchase in-game items form other players using actual money, it's only a matter of time till all MMOS allow this- the market will speak with their gaming dollars otherwise.

so then why exactly do you play? if you want pvp make a pvp player!