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Estu · #11 08-22-2014, 02:27 PM

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Originally Posted by talian21 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

MQ turns something that you should be questing, into something that you can simply buy. RMT'ing is buying stuff (with real money) and the No. 1 thing ppl are willing to pay for, as one example, is Epic's.

This does not even begin to cover how much enjoyment of the game is lost when someone actually tries to quest something, only to find some asshole farmer cock-blocking them, often leaving them no choice but to pay for it. With MQ'ing gone, MQ farmers will disappear, and ppl can actually *play* instead of pay.

Another way to think about it is this? What possible benefit does MQ have to anyone, but some asshole platfarmer, while ruining the fun of someone trying to actually play the game? The NODROP tag exists for a reason, and it's not to use some exploit to circumvent it.

This is rather off-topic but I'll bite.

1) Suppose you remove MQs. The demand for the relevant items is the same, but now the people who need those items are camping them instead of the people selling the MQs. How does this affect people trying to get the items? If a camp is annoying because it's in high demand before MQs are removed, the camp will still be in high demand after MQs are removed. I don't see how the experience of being annoyed at a camp being highly contested is different whether you're competing with a fellow person who needs that item themselves versus a so-called "asshole farmer cockblocker".

2) What possible benefit does MQ have to people? It gives them the ability to avoid doing annoying, highly-contested camps. If I can farm up 8k in a few hours doing a camp I enjoy and pay for a JBoots MQ, I'd rather do that then go to OOT and deal with the highly-contested AC camp. Clear benefit.

I'd like to add that one can make valid arguments against MQing - e.g. that its prevalence on this server is not classic since it was largely unknown on live during classic era. I just don't believe the points you brought up are valid ones.