A person who will do whatever it takes to achieve his goal.
They fuel the in game economy.
They make the game feel more alive.

That doesn't sound like one to me, but like said before we all have our own definitions. What your describing sounds to me more like someone who prices everything very highly to raise the market value. Usually this leads into making it harder to aquire items. Thus people end up giving into buying from gold farmers (or what ever currency the game may have). The type of PLers i disclosed in my last post don't contribute anything to a game. and are only there to rush to the end and get bored, possibly making money providing a service to other players that goes against the games EULA. A laxxed game development company like Sony usually falls victim to this often. EverQuest 1 is a prime example.

Had this problem yesterday. I liked how they worked NPC dialog in oldschool EverQuest. Everything your suposed to talk about is listed in brackets like this [].

-Funny Example-
Guard, Says "Hail citizen. Welcome to freeport. Stay away from [boomba]."
You, Say "boomba"
Guard, Says "Aye. That large [ogre] over there who's sellin pickles. If you get to close you might be the next thing he pickles."
You, Say "ogre"
Guard, Says "Now don't be makin me explainin ya what an ogre be... Go frolic with a [gnoll]."
You, say "gnoll"
Guard looks around paranoid and lost for words.

If the updater isn't working it should be removed from the installer in the future to avoid confusing players like me who don't visit on a daily basis to know about the latest news. I re-downloaded this morning after not playing for a long time. The updater didn't connect so i searched the forum and found this topic and checked each mirror to find their version.dat's missing. The good side of this situation is nobody can say the problem is on my end. Thats usually a cop-out used worldwide. If the game don't work, then it absolutely must be your computer.