07-25-2013, 03:09 PM
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Sarnak
Join Date: May 2011
Posts: 372
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Originally Posted by August
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If you don't understand RMT you have too much free time, honestly.
As a 15 year old kid I caught onto play buying/selling and acct buying/selling on Live. The market for platinum was so fluid that if you had a Legends server account you could buy plat on one server, switch it to a new account, and sell back to major plat buyers to make a couple cents on the dollar. Actually use PA and you're making 10-30%.
When I played WoW after I got my first job (hence no more time) I paid a company 100 bucks to level a priest to 60 for me on a new server. I wanted to play a priest, didn't have the time to level it myself, and the 100 bucks equated to 2 hours of my work life. Is it worth 2 hours to be able to play a character with my friends? Absolutely.
You can twist it pretty easily to not be 'cheating'. It is no different from micro-transactions (pay to win) and even the RMT AH in D3 (which sucked btw).
When it comes down to it you have a bunch of people in their late 20s and early 30s through 40s that play on this server that played EQ back in its classic era. You can bet there are atleast a couple hundred of people here who have well paying jobs. You can also bet there are at least a couple hundred people here that want to play a top level toon, or a well-geared toon, but don't have enough consecutive hours to do the grind. It took me like 5 months to get my enchanter to 60. I enjoy leveling, however, and not the end game - so there was no draw for pay-to-win for me. If I had been motivated by killing Trakonan, then I can totally see a world where I purchase PP.
honestly the only thing these guys need to really worry about is paying taxes. They ARE making money so they better report their ill-gotten gains to the IRS.
The answer to this problem is technological. Like the war on drugs, you can't stop a service that people want. People who play here obviously want the ability to buy PP. The problem now is that it's being duplicated and illegitimately gotten. This is a technical issue that needs to be addressed by the staff.
Telling people 'stop RMT'ing' won't fix the issue. Trying to shut them down won't fix the issue. Fix server stability issues (the dupe), implement a better detection method (I can help with this, if you like).
So far I haven't seen too much of an official response. To be honest last night was the third night in a row that me and my wife logged on only to log off 20 minutes later because of deaths due to lag. I won't be spending much more time here.
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