Uber upgrade?

[lfd]

So if you're protesting the market, good for you.  Don't  be so self righteous.  Remember that even by protesting you are creating value.  You sir are a participant so long as you play the realms.

How on _earth_ does that make sense?

You seem to be saying that by playing on the realms (which I do exclusively in passworded games either by myself or with friends whom I know to be as fanatical about legit play as myself), I am supporting (creating value for) dupes, hacks, cheats and bots. That's rubbish, and to make matters worse, it's presumptious rubbish.

It's worth noting that the only trading "legit" players are likely to do is within their own closed communities of trusted players; people whom they can trust to be providing items found legitimately. It's happened before that people have later discovered that they were in possession of a duped, botted or otherwise unlegit item; the usual way of dealing with this is to either sell it to Charsi or, if you'd rather not profit in any way, drop it in a game to rot.

In an ironic twist, your own quote:

The holier-than-thou unsupported almost puritanical obsession with the rightness and wrongness of other people's activities

seems to be exactly what you're doing: objecting in a holier-than-thou way about the wrongness of gecko's activities (complaining about people suggesting that they purchase items online).

BTW, if you really wanted to put the hackers out of business, you would hack/dupe/bot the items yourself

Don't even get me started on this.