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Ecolem

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Why World of Warcraft is going down the drain
« on: December 19, 2004, 02:36:30 am »
\"If you\'ve been to eBay lately, you\'ll see that people are already auctioning off pretty much anything you can have in game, from gold, to items, to entire accounts. Once this starts to happen on a large scale, the economy will be trashed, and World of Warcraft along with it.

And this isn\'t just limited to the game economy. Who do you think the number one candidates for using bots are? They are the people who want to farm for gold or level characters to sell on eBay. THIS HAS RUINED MANY A MMORPG! It sucks the fun out of the game if you can just pay an extra $25 to start at the end, and then people stop playing and WoW goes bye-bye.

Even if Blizzard is unwilling to flex its corporate muscle and have eBay pull WoW items (Everquest did it, so they could too if they wanted to protect their investment), we can still try and get it stopped. \"

EDIT:Making this more clear...Quoted by a post in the WoW forums & Not what i wrote.

As you can clearly see...not worth playing(and paying!)
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« Reply #1 on: December 19, 2004, 02:37:30 am »
have you even played it!? it is soooooo much fun...
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« Reply #2 on: December 19, 2004, 02:41:04 am »
yeh it is fun, i played it at a friends house 8)

But my point is, is that things are geting a bit out of hand. I mean WHO would actully pay REAL money for game money!!

BTW goto Ebay and type in
\"World of Warcraft\" and you will get what i am saying :D
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« Reply #3 on: December 19, 2004, 02:43:12 am »
Q: Why is World of Warcraft going down the drain ?
A:  Because Planeshift Crystal Blue should be out in a couple of weeks, and there are no costs, monthly or otherwise, and it quite plainly is better.  

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« Reply #4 on: December 19, 2004, 02:45:42 am »
Hehe thats the PlaneShift spirit!!! :D

(Kinda am sorry for WoW though, is a preety good game) ;)
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« Reply #5 on: December 19, 2004, 02:45:59 am »
Ha!

\"World of WarCraft! Powerleveling! Any Server Alliance or Horde!

 
Here, we just introduce No-stop powerleveling service.  Level 1-15 Only $34.95
 
During World of Warcraft No-stop powerleveling period, your character will be leveled by our one master players 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, operating at the highest efficiency so that your character will reach the desired level in the timeframe you\'ve specified. This is why our Normal Powerleveling service is the fastest way for you to bypass boredom and get to have fun.
 
Surprising : After powerleveling, you often can get good equipment and some golds because you can keep all items and golds from powerleveling. How good the equipment and how many golds you will have depend on how long you use our service. \"




Unbelievable...
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« Reply #6 on: December 19, 2004, 02:47:35 am »
OMG.... 8o
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« Reply #7 on: December 19, 2004, 02:50:25 am »
yeah ppl got banned for that stuff...


BTW, WoW broke records for selling , and a wolrd record for MMO. 250,000 bought it the first day, 200,00 accounts created :D

Look up Star Wars Galaxies.. ppl sell money there too. When I was playing WoW I saw a sword for sell on ebay :P
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« Reply #8 on: December 19, 2004, 02:54:46 am »
I didnt believe it, so I searched eBay for World of Warcraft. Most of the items are people selling gold in WoW, as well as guides for setting up bots. Its unbelievable...
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« Reply #9 on: December 19, 2004, 02:55:51 am »
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« Reply #10 on: December 19, 2004, 02:57:33 am »
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Even if Blizzard is unwilling to flex its corporate muscle and have eBay pull WoW items (Everquest did it, so they could too if they wanted to protect their investment), we can still try and get it stopped. \"

*Dies laughing*
Dude, have you ever heard of player auctions (referring to the website)?  Apparently not.  Getting the EQ stuff off of ebay did absolutely nothing.  And you know what, EQ\'s economy hasn\'t gone down the drain.  I think you\'re overreacting.  And besides, did you actually expect a game as big as WoW to not have people selling characters, items, PL\'ing, and game money for real money?  That\'s pretty much common place nowadays.  If PS gets big you will see it happen there too.  Just wait.

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« Reply #11 on: December 19, 2004, 03:05:17 am »
Lol....

Read what i wrote at the bottom

Written by me ;)
\"Quoted by a post in the WoW forums.\"

I didn?t write all that I simply copied and paste!

Look before you post...
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« Reply #12 on: December 19, 2004, 03:10:19 am »
Only idiots sell items for real money and only even more idiotic people buy them.
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« Reply #13 on: December 19, 2004, 03:20:28 am »
heck, I don\'t agree. People actually work this way... I believe it\'s a good investment :D  seriously.  Sure, it kills the RP, gets dedicated RPers mad, but other than that it doesn\'t do anything bad to economy, or anything else.

Those people who buy gold and items know what they are doing.. they have enough real money, it may be nothing to them, who knows.   Then they actually do have some real fun because they didn\'t have to spend months developing their chars to get to that point.  


Personally, would never do it because I\'m dedicated RPer.  But I don\'t judge those who do it...
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« Reply #14 on: December 19, 2004, 03:21:25 am »
Not sure about that Syzerian - looking at the eBay auctions it seems rather profitable ($50 for some game money).  

But I certainly agree that trading game money for real money harms the game, and is or will be the downfall of commercial games.  

Seeing as planeshift is open source, we will have to work doubly hard to prevent this, as many people could find out how to give their characters an advantage.
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