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Originally Posted by nhdjoseywales
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The same argument can be made about in game plat. It shouldn't exist because you can go to x site and buy it for real money. Again, Krono is literally just another form of currency and doesn't enable anything that wasn't already happening. If Krono or plat didn't exist people would just buy the items directly from whoever for real cash. Nothing is ever going to change the concept of trading time spent in one activity for time someone else spent doing something else, your issue is with the concept of economics itself.
I really cant imagine you people find much happiness in life as much as you worry about someone spending cash on stuff. It must ruin all of your hobbies. Do you get bitter when your neighbor hires someone to add an addition to his house instead of growing the lumber and making the boards himself then assembling it all? I'm genuinely curious.
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So much cringe! Not sure where to start...
For the record, I'm not taking a stand against Agnarr or Phinny or the pay to win models they have. They have a business to run and need to make money to do so and develop more servers, recruit more players, develop expansions, etc. It's a business model a lot of online games have used and are successful because of it. It doesn't work with me, but whatever.
To argue that taking issue with certain transactions is to take issue with the concept of economics itself is ridiculous. Drugs can be bought for money, as can sex. I don't agree with doing either, so am I taking an issue with economics itself? People are going to disagree that spending money for advancement / objects in a video cash shop is wrong and against their own personal gaming code of ethics. Who cares? Why come off all high and mighty above it?
I also don't understand how you tie P99 RMT transactions into Agnarr / Phinny cash shops. If someone breaks the law (buys plat from a shop), it doesn't mean you remove plat from the economy, you remove the RMT individuals. Daybreak does realize this happens and there could be a market on it they can capitalize from, and they took it. P99 can't legally endorse RMT due to Daybreak agreement I believe, but even if they could, I can't believe Nilbog would ever endorse that idea on his classic sandbox.
I believe people are critical of Daybreak cash shops because EQ began as a game where you slowly build yourself up and develop your character, you are meant to start in rags on your first toon. That is part of the reward to see high end items later in the game, not the beginning. P99 is here to recreate that nostalgia feeling of when the server first launched in 1999, Daybreak is looking to generate revenue by any means necessary, even if it means compromising some of the original game's integrity.
09-08-2017, 04:16 PM
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