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Originally Posted by Gustoo
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I remember hearing about boxing early on, but I always scorned it like "that's super lame to pay an extra 10 dollars just to be more efficient at a game that is supposed to be fun"
So I think there may have been those of us that blanked out the fact that it was happening pretty often, we just assumed most people playing were of the same mindset as we were.
In that sense, the fact that it is bannable here may be the distinguishing feature of the server, more than the content lock level. The idea is to play it like a role playing game, not like a platinum mining simulator.
But people did play it like they were on a factory floor, and maybe that was the first time a digital currency achieved real life value. Other games you could obsess over for your skill and stuff but this game had sellable assets. You can't sell "I am the best at PONG" but you can sell a spare 100k platinum. And you can make 100k platinum a lot faster if you're playing at least 2 characters but ideally 4 adequately. I think it was the first game that did that. The duping and stuff on games like UO or diablo didn't let those items become really valuable I think.
I'm just rambling now. I think that there are genuinely two camps and they both didn't realize how many people were in the other camp.
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BB server had some known boxers, my guild was a smaller one of mostly RL friends <Reckless Fury>. My experiences discussing it in era were mostly seen as excessive but everyone wished they could do it. They would like they have the extra finances to excessively spend on something so frivolous as a video game, who knew it would make the mold many would follow in today.
No one advertised it, even in era. My roommate would RP his cleric, Steeljaw, as "The quiet silent type". But I have to point out this was later during LDON, during this era he was using the old computer as his main. Only when he upgraded did he box, and his cleric sat looking at a wall because it was so damn laggy.. i remember trying to get that cleric to jump things and it being soo frustrating, but otherwise it would lag out and probably crash.