oldmandennis,Nov 30 2005, 08:35 PM Wrote:Actually, I think the NFL analogy is pretty apt. There is a set of in game rules, enforced by referees. These would correspond to you in game Warcraft rules, enforced by software. If you violate those rules, you lose the game.
Then there is a set of out of game rules. In the NFL, they are rules against roids and the salary cap. In warcraft, it is rules against exchanging cash for gold. In both cases you have a reasonable chance of getting away with it. In both cases you are using resources you are not supposed to have to increase your chances of on field sucess. And in both cases it is wrong.[right][snapback]96026[/snapback][/right]
Eh? I was clearly making the distinction between the rules in the field (4 downs, 10 yards, the whole kibosh) and the rules about how the team is supposed to be managed. I don't disagree that it's wrong in the sense that it violates the TOS, I'm just saying that rules that are in the TOS that do not directly reflect in the gameplay (as I said, giving someone 100g for cash or for a song makes a lick of difference) are not the scope of what he was referring to when he talked about what was "allowed" and not how the game was "supposed to be played," so to speak. I saw it clearly refer to the "field" rules.
And as I said, unless the real money cash can be exchanged for in-game cash that can be used to buy advantages from the NFL, it's not really a very good analogy. There may be a salary cap, but teams are free to spend as much as they want in training their players, equipping them with whatever they deem necessary, etc. Maybe paying players to join your guild could be closer, but WoW has no "cap" in acquisition of skill (as I've read in many places how uber-guilds woo good players to join them by offering them in-game gold or loot), only in acquisition of items (or in-game currency, which are roughly equivalent).
EDIT: Clarity of a couple of things.