The same thing happens with WoW and gold/item selling... Do they close down those sites?
Blizzard is neither a deity or a law for them to close down the sites.
But they do permaban people who trade with ingame gold. And nowadays the game has evolved to a point where buying gold for money is completely obsolete. There is no competitive field of WoW where real life money can buy you an advantage anymore.
Actually, Elfen, they have banned thousands of WoW accounts due to hacking.
But then people buy WoW right back up and start doing it again...
That was my point. They are step behind. They ban a lot of accounts, great, that's good, but does it fix the problem, no. It only manages it. The problem or rather the people doing this stuff are still there doing it. Banning the account does little.
Does banning the account of a bot on a forum fix the bot problem? Same thing. If we step up our efforts and ban IP addresses we do a better job of managing the problem.
But this is mostly behind the scenes right. They only announce when they ban accounts, and the populace is happy. They put a spam reporter into the game to give players the power to remove gold spammers in chat channels, and the populace feels Blizzard gave them control over their own experience. Protip: Spam reporting only reports the account, it does not ban it until Blizzard decides to ban it.
I would just like to add if you do this in WOW there is no distinction between spamming a macro of a gold buying website and spamming a bunch of random shit and pissing everyone else off. they both get filed as spam, and yeah the account will only be banned when Blizzard actually bans it.
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-Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth.
Jesus... If you don't like or want to buy items from those sites, then don't, what's the god damn problem here ?
"booohooo this guy has the best stuff because he bought it all for 300$ on a site when i had to play for months and still have crappy stuff -crying- "
I said it before, one of the most important part of the game is playing to find good loot, if someone wants to go on the internet and buy the best loot, then let them do so, they are only ruining the game for THEMSELVES, not you.
Jesus... If you don't like or want to buy items from those sites, then don't, what's the god damn problem here ?
"booohooo this guy has the best stuff because he bought it all for 300$ on a site when i had to play for months and still have crappy stuff -crying- "
I said it before, one of the most important part of the game is playing to find good loot, if someone wants to go on the internet and buy the best loot, then let them do so, they are only ruining the game for THEMSELVES, not you.
I agree, like I said, if its ruining your own experience its all in your head. Other than that, it might have impact on the economy etc, but who cares as well? These fluctuations won't change the game.
That doesn't mean you have to "agree" about these sites, though. Its definitively something "bad" when it comes down to it.
I don't agree or desagree, i just don't care. And really even if those sites where they sell items wouldn't exist, i highly douth you would see a noticable difference in the economy.
Thats right. The item base of the entire economy is restricted upon what each and every player obtain from monster drops. When you buy items from a site, it is just redistributing these items among the players in the game. While it redistributes them in an unbalanced fashion, it isn't actually adding any to the economy so basically all that happens is the rich become richer etc.
What does bring down the economy though is the use of automated programs that can MF run 24/7.
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But they do permaban people who trade with ingame gold. And nowadays the game has evolved to a point where buying gold for money is completely obsolete. There is no competitive field of WoW where real life money can buy you an advantage anymore.
That was my point. They are step behind. They ban a lot of accounts, great, that's good, but does it fix the problem, no. It only manages it. The problem or rather the people doing this stuff are still there doing it. Banning the account does little.
Does banning the account of a bot on a forum fix the bot problem? Same thing. If we step up our efforts and ban IP addresses we do a better job of managing the problem.
I would just like to add if you do this in WOW there is no distinction between spamming a macro of a gold buying website and spamming a bunch of random shit and pissing everyone else off. they both get filed as spam, and yeah the account will only be banned when Blizzard actually bans it.
"booohooo this guy has the best stuff because he bought it all for 300$ on a site when i had to play for months and still have crappy stuff -crying- "
I said it before, one of the most important part of the game is playing to find good loot, if someone wants to go on the internet and buy the best loot, then let them do so, they are only ruining the game for THEMSELVES, not you.
There's PvP.
Think about it.
I agree, like I said, if its ruining your own experience its all in your head. Other than that, it might have impact on the economy etc, but who cares as well? These fluctuations won't change the game.
That doesn't mean you have to "agree" about these sites, though. Its definitively something "bad" when it comes down to it.
What does bring down the economy though is the use of automated programs that can MF run 24/7.