Player Gold undervalued on Guild Wars news

AncientPC

Forge Runner

Join Date: Sep 2005

Ascalon 1

W/R

18 Oct 2005 at 23:19 - 41

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Originally Posted by =HT=Ingram

Start reporting the botters and resellers. And stop using them. Someone is buying gold from these people, and should be SHOT for it. Or more practically. Banned for it.

I think botters should be banned too, but just to clarify you want resellers (i.e. people who buy / resell items for in game money) to be banned too?

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Originally Posted by =HT=Ingram

Oh and to the silly comment about it not being your money being spent and the game gold is not real... bla bla bla. Arenanet gold is copyrighted material that is being traded for real world money. No matter how you slice it. Its against the RoC to cut Arena net out of the market of their own product. and against international copyright laws to boot. So if Arenanet chooses to make an issue of it they have legal precedence to do so. I would have zero problem with this if it were ArenaNet themselves doing it as a service addition to the game. but it is not. Thus it is not legal. and not a legitimate game play option either.

I never stated that I supported buying gold, and I realised that buying in game items with real cash is a bannable offense. I am not arguing that. I simply stated that I can empathize with those who do.

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Originally Posted by Spoonman

Still, even if you do make $120 an hour (which I honestly doubt), how is it sad how people enjoy to play the game? We all have our tastes, and although yours may be buying flashy weapons and armour with Ebayed gold, some of us actually PREFER to spend a lot of time "farming".

You obviously missed the <sarcasm> tags. Here's the original quote:

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Originally Posted by AncientPC

<sarcasm>I think it's sad that people spend hundreds of hours to get the amount of money that I can buy off eBay for 30 minutes of work. ($60 for 1 million from eBay)</sarcasm>

Zonzai

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Feb 2005

19 Oct 2005 at 03:08 - 42

Come on guys, It’s not that hard to understand. This is what it seemed (felt) like to me at the time that I broke down and bought some gold online...

AN: "Hey lets make drops really low and nerf all the farming spots and then tell everyone that the game doesn't require farming!"

Me: "Damn I can't get a superior rune that I actually want or is worth more than 2k to drop so that I can buy a superior rune that I actually want and I don't have 100 hours a day to spam trade channels to sell off my crap blues and no-mod purples for nominal gains! Guess I'll have to farm."

AN: "Hey we found someone farming that's not an invinci-monk or trapper in UW. NERF BAT!!!"

Me: "Damnit I've been at this forever and I think I've actually lost money. Damn grawls are stealing my gold! Man this is ridiculous!"

Friend: "I know, doesn't farming suck if you're not an invinci-monk or trapper in UW. I just bought money online. It doesn't cost much."

Me: "hmm..."

All of that said, since SF things have gotten much better for the GW economy. Nobody should really feel pressured into buying gold because their farming spots have been nerfed constantly one after another or because the drop rates are too low.

I take responsibility for breaking the EULA myself, regardless of what someone else did that was wrong. Anet fixed their end of things (crappy drops and few decent farming spots) and I’ll fix mine. If I do get banned, I’ll be back just because leveling in GW is so fast and easy and the game is just that damn good.

But it shouldn’t be so hard to understand. You either have to be completely devoid of empathy or Mother Theresa to keep going on about the evils of buying gold online.