The Obsession about the Economy

[the Langolier]

I feel that any participation, no matter how small, in an economy that exists because of dupes is supporting the dupers.

Agreed.

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IMO, the old economy of closed realm play was completely cheated. I have never even found ONE SOJ. I am sure that is true for many others as well. Obviously the multiple SOJ's flowing through the realms are dupes. And yet trading through this system isn't cheating? In order to use this system legitimately (so to speak), one would have to actually find multiple SOJ's - and then use them to trade for some arbitrary item you seek. I can garuntee that had the old SOJ economy been legit, it would never even have existed in the first place.