Buying Items on Ebay?

[Bob]

Buying items on ebay IS cheating

To my knowledge Blizz hasn't stated that this is their opinion - my apologies if they have, and please disregard the below post. they say that they don't support it, but then they don't support muling either.

But sepose you are playing a game with more than 2 players, lets say... monopoly!
You and 2 opponands; Op1 pay's REAL monney to op2 for doing certain moves that will put op1 in a better position, even better than your position.

There is a difference between DiabloII (at the moment anyway) and a game of monopoly, and that is that in DiabloII most people aren't competing, why? all the ladders are full of level 99's, the ladder season hasn't been restarted since I've been using Bnet and most people play PvM. Unless you have people competing against each other (i.e. to level fastest and get to the top of the ladder or in a duel), someone spending real life money to get an 'advantage' over someone else isn't really a problem. Since there's no real 'advantage' to be gained

So long as what they are trading for is legit, I have no moral objection to people spending whatever they want on the items - it's really just an extension of ingame trading, it's just that the sellers value your cash more than the gameplay value that they could get out of trading another item for it. If people want to spend their money on having more 'fun' in a game, they should be allowed to.

They may have an item that they haven't worked for, and I haven't got one because I didn't spend money, but they aren't competing against me, so I couldn't care less.

How would you like playing monopoly with these two ppl?

I don't play monopoly, I just run the paying out bank, the estate agent and the investment bank. Murphy's law ensures that someone else ALWAYS gets mayfair and Park Lane, and then ensures that I land on them both.

And if you talk about the entertianment value, as you guys have been doing up to now;
Isn't it really he same discussion as with hacking and duping?

if you really wanted to avoid the booring parts of the process, then why not create an open char and use an editor to do so for free!?

Yes, there is a difference, because buying a legit item from someone over the internet means that SOMEONE has done the work finding it. Think of it as employing some annoymous person to find items for you so that you can get some easy kills without finding the items yourself. And this is what sets it apart from duping etc. because although you didn't do the work someone did, and transferring real funds to get that given to you is just a redistribution of in-game wealth

Although, I don't agree with people buying stuff for PvP. when you're not competing against someone, then you're purely playing for fun and who found the item that you're splattering umpteen enemies with is irrelevant. When you're dueling, that's a different matter, since you've done absolutely no work toward your character which you then use to 'prove' that you are better than someone else.


Just my £0.02 or €0.02788 or $0.03244 :P

-Bob

p.s. any opinions on the signature + avatar? I'm still chuffed to bits with my first photoshop work.